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Moral Understanding as Knowing Right from Wrong

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Sliwa, Paulina 

Abstract

Moral understanding is a valuable epistemic and moral good. I argue that moral understanding is the ability to know right from wrong. I defend the account against challenges from nonreductionists, such as Alison Hills, who argue that moral understanding is distinct from moral knowledge. Moral understanding, she suggests, is constituted by a set of abilities: to give and follow moral explanations and to draw moral conclusions. I argue that Hills’s account rests on too narrow a conception of moral understanding. Among other things, it cannot account for the importance of first-personal experience for achieving moral understanding.

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5003 Philosophy, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies

Journal Title

Ethics

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Journal ISSN

0014-1704
1539-297X

Volume Title

127

Publisher

University of Chicago Press