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    Prima facie principles (e.g., one ought to be kind, other... — Carmelics
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    Supports→In cases involving conflicting moral principles, moral intuition is required to determine what action one ought to perform, all things considered

    Prima facie principles (e.g., one ought to be kind, other things being equal) can conflict in particular situations

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    At the other extreme are forms of moral particularism, according to which one directly intuits the moral rightness or wrongness of an act once one has understood its particular natural features (see the entry on moral particularism). As in the previous case it is necessary to comprehend the non-moral features of the situation before a specific moral judgment can be made and known to be true. In making this judgment, however, one must rely not merely on knowledge of these non-moral features but

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