“I hold that moral intuitions are nothing but learned prejudices. Historic examples from slavery to the divine right of kings to tortured confessions of witchcraft or Judaism to the subjugation of women to genocide all point to the fallibility of these ‘moral intuitions’. There is absolutely no sense to the claim that its conclusions are to be adopted before those of a reasoned argument.”—Alonzo Fyfe
I’m not sure you can get anywhere without relying on intuitions at all. Some intuitions might hold more weight than others, but ultimately it’s intuitions all the way down.
“I hold that moral intuitions are nothing but learned prejudices. Historic examples from slavery to the divine right of kings to tortured confessions of witchcraft or Judaism to the subjugation of women to genocide all point to the fallibility of these ‘moral intuitions’. There is absolutely no sense to the claim that its conclusions are to be adopted before those of a reasoned argument.”—Alonzo Fyfe
I’m not sure you can get anywhere without relying on intuitions at all. Some intuitions might hold more weight than others, but ultimately it’s intuitions all the way down.