Moral Sense in Different Senses

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Steven G. Smith
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ABSTRACT To understand the internal structure of moral positions and the nature of moral disagreements, it would be useful to have a “moral sense” model of our different types of moral sensitivity, from our relatively spontaneous friendliness to our appreciation for traditional community norms, ideal ethical norms, and spiritual appeals to ultimate concern. After the first round of modern moral sense theory in Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Edwards, most discussions of the moral sense concept have centered on general theses about moral value (objective or subjective, rational or emotional) without attending to this complexity. Even though the familiar positions in these discussions are not reconcilable on the plane of ethical theory, they need not be seen as simply antagonistic. Working with clearly differentiated senses of both “moral” and “sense,” this article refashions “moral sense theory” as a way of placing the insights of the classic moral sense theories, ethical rationalism, and a distinctly spiritual sensibility in a conceptually stable and empirically more discriminating order. The article also suggests strengthening the realist premise of moral sensing by invoking the model of a game player’s operational sense of how things are going in pursuit of a game’s objectives.
不同意义上的道德感
为了理解道德立场的内部结构和道德分歧的本质,有一个“道德感”模型可以帮助我们理解不同类型的道德敏感性,从我们相对自发的友好到我们对传统社区规范、理想伦理规范、精神诉求到终极关怀的欣赏。在沙夫茨伯里、哈奇森和爱德华兹的第一轮现代道德感理论之后,大多数关于道德感概念的讨论都集中在关于道德价值(客观或主观,理性或情感)的一般性论点上,而没有考虑到这种复杂性。尽管在这些讨论中熟悉的立场在伦理理论的层面上是不可调和的,但它们不需要被视为简单的对立。本文以“道德”和“感觉”这两个明确区分的概念为基础,重塑了“道德感理论”,将经典道德感理论的见解、伦理理性主义和明显的精神感性置于概念上稳定、经验上更有区别的秩序中。这篇文章还建议通过调用游戏玩家在追求游戏目标时的操作感模型来强化道德感的现实主义前提。
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