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    Moral conclusions in Beauchamp and Childress's approach are justified through both coherence and foundationalism

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    • 1.Moral conclusions are connected to the principles of the common morality, which serves as the foundationalist aspect of the account
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    • 2.Moral conclusions are also justified through coherence via the method of wide reflective equilibrium
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    • 1.Foundationalism requires that basic beliefs justify others without themselves requiring justification from higher-order beliefs.
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    • 2.Beauchamp and Childress explicitly allow the common morality principles to be revised under pressure from considered judgments via reflective equilibrium.
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    • 3.A foundation that is revisable by what it is supposed to ground is not a genuine epistemic foundation but a coherentist node in a network.
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    • 1.Wide reflective equilibrium, as Rawls and Daniels formulated it, is a purely coherentist method that makes no appeal to self-evident or non-inferentially justified moral truths.
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    • 2.Invoking both foundationalism and coherentism as simultaneous justificatory bases generates a structural contradiction, since coherentism denies that any belief has privileged non-inferential warrant.
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    • 3.The resulting account is not a genuine hybrid but rather an unstable conflation that Sosa and BonJour's internalism/externalism debates show cannot be resolved by simply asserting both frameworks apply.
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    Importantly, this common morality is historicist, in that its authority is established historically, through the success of its related norms in advancing human flourishing across time and place. However, unlike many historicist accounts, the common morality is not relativist, as its norms are to be applied universally. Beauchamp and Childress accord the common morality a special place within their approach, a place shielded from the jostling involved in the quest for coherence through wide refl
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