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    Challenges→The existence of self-evident moral propositions is called into question by empirical psychology

    If moral intuitions are unreliable, they cannot justify belief in self-evident moral propositions

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    Empirical psychology has recently cast doubt on the reliability of at least some of our moral intuitions. Since a self-evident proposition is one of which a clear intuition justifies us in believing it, these doubts call into question the claim that our moral intuitions justify us in believing them, and thus whether there are any self-evident moral propositions. The experiments that cast doubt on our intuitions tend to focus on our intuitions about trolley cases. Consider the following three cas

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