Rawls's reflective equilibrium method demonstrates a coherentist pathway to moral knowledge that begins with considered judgments—paradigm cases drawn from experience—without assuming foundational a priori principles.
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Moral judgments solicited under conditions where people are calm and have adequate information about the cases under consideration, used as inputs to Rawlsian reflective equilibrium
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
moral knowledge(Used to argue that moral anti-realism precludes genuine moral knowledge)
Knowledge of objective moral truths, which requires the existence of objective moral properties
paradigm cases(used to explain how we define concepts)
The clearest, most obvious examples of something that help us understand what that thing is—like using a robin as the paradigm case of a bird.
reflective equilibrium(Introduced by Goodman in the context of justifying induction)
A methodological state reached when considered judgments and the inference rules that best explain those judgments are mutually coherent, achieved by iteratively revising either judgments or rules when conflicts arise