Book contents
- Of Moral Conduct
- Of Moral Conduct
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Dimensions of Moral Conduct
- Part II Moral Obligation
- Part III Moral Knowledge and Normative Realism
- 7 The Epistemology of Moral Principles
- 8 Moral Perception and Singular Moral Judgment
- 9 Moral Explanation and Moral Realism
- Part IV Reasons, Values, and Obligations
- References
- Index
8 - Moral Perception and Singular Moral Judgment
from Part III - Moral Knowledge and Normative Realism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
- Of Moral Conduct
- Of Moral Conduct
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Dimensions of Moral Conduct
- Part II Moral Obligation
- Part III Moral Knowledge and Normative Realism
- 7 The Epistemology of Moral Principles
- 8 Moral Perception and Singular Moral Judgment
- 9 Moral Explanation and Moral Realism
- Part IV Reasons, Values, and Obligations
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter outlines a theory of moral perception, describes a structural analogy between perception and action, and indicates how perception can provide an objective basis for moral knowledge. It is shown to have a basis in the kinds of grounds that underlie the moral properties to which moral perception responds, such as the violence of a face-slapping. With this outline of a theory of moral perception in view, the chapter describes the presentational phenomenal character of moral perception. Prominent in this presentationality is the phenomenological integration between our moral sensibility and our non-moral perception of the various kinds of natural properties that ground moral properties. Moral perception is possible without moral judgment but commonly yields it. It is also possible without moral emotion but may arise from it in some cases and evoke it in others. Many perceptually grounded judgments are justified; many also express empirical moral knowledge.
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- Of Moral ConductA Theory of Obligation, Reasons, and Value, pp. 170 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023