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    Morality cannot be just a system of absolute principles. — Carmelics
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    Morality cannot be just a system of absolute principles.

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    • 1.Aristotle's phronesis demonstrates that practical wisdom requires context-sensitive judgment irreducible to rule-following.
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    • 2.If moral expertise consisted in applying fixed principles, the practically wise person would be replaceable by an algorithm.
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    • 3.No finite set of absolute principles can anticipate the morally relevant features of every novel situation moral agents will face.
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    • 1.Ross's prima facie duties show that features like promise-keeping and harm-prevention can each be overriding or overridden depending on context.
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    • 2.If any duty were truly absolute, Ross's cases of genuine moral conflict—where honoring one duty violates another—would be impossible, yet they plainly occur.
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    • 1.Moral reasoning requires making sense of cases in which there are moral reasons on both sides, both for and against an action.
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    • 2.A system of absolute principles cannot effectively accommodate conflict between moral reasons on different sides.
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    • 3.Therefore, a system of absolute principles is inadequate for capturing the full structure of morality.
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    What this criticism amounts to is the complaint that we need to be able to make sense of cases in which there are moral reasons on both sides, for and against. But we cannot do this effectively if all moral reasons are specified in absolute principles. Morality cannot, therefore, be just a system of absolute principles. The only way in which we could continue to think of morality as governed by absolute principles is to suppose that there is only one such principle, so that there is no possibili
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