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1. www.journals.uchicago.edu › doi › fullMoral Understanding as Knowing Right from Wrong

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   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.

2. plato.stanford.edu › entries › moral-epistemologyMoral Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Feb 4, 2003 · Truth has been a central concern to pragmatism from its inception (Misak 2013) and the problem of moral truth bears critically on the viability of pragmatic naturalism as a methodology for understanding the possibility of moral knowledge.

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   Are moral understanding and moral knowledge related?

   • It’s natural to think of moral understanding and moral knowledge as closely related epistemic phenomena. We say that moral understanding is a matter of knowing right from wrong. Typical sources of moral knowledge—thinking hard about a moral question or having firsthand experiences—are also sources of moral understanding.

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   Do we know moral truths?

   • Moreover, as defenders of moral knowledge point out, unless such a case is made out, the default position should be that we know some moral truths. Defenders note that moral language is formulated as if moral claims can be true and that we worry about whether to believe certain moral claims just as if truth is at stake.

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   Is moral understanding a matter of knowing right from wrong?

   • We say that moral understanding is a matter of knowing right from wrong. Typical sources of moral knowledge—thinking hard about a moral question or having firsthand experiences—are also sources of moral understanding. This intuitive thought has lately come under sustained attack.

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   What is a moral knowledge account?

   • The Moral Knowledge Account explains why: imagination, moral perception, emotional responses, and reflection are all ways of achieving moral understanding and all have their own distinctive phenomenologies. VII.

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4. link.springer.com › article › 10Moral understanding and knowledge | Philosophical Studies

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   May 21, 2014 · Moral understanding is a species of knowledge. Understanding why an action is wrong, for example, amounts to knowing why the action is wrong. The claim that moral understanding is immune to luck while moral knowledge is not does not withstand scrutiny; nor does the idea that there is something deep about understanding for there are different ...

   • Author: Amber Riaz
   • Email: amber@lums.edu.pk

   • Publish Year: 2015

5. link.springer.com › article › 10Moral Progress and Evolution: Knowledge Versus Understanding

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   Feb 10, 2021 · On this view, moral progress follows increases in moral understanding rather than accumulations of moral knowledge. Whether an understanding-based account of moral progress is feasible and what its implications for the notion itself of moral progress are, will be discussed.

   • Author: Eleonora Severini
   • Email: eleonora.severini@uni-due.de

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6. link.springer.com › article › 10The Moral Virtue of Being Understanding | Ethical Theory and ...

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   Sep 5, 2021 · Being understanding is a moral virtue. But what exactly is it that an understanding person does excellently? And what exactly makes it a moral virtue, rather than (merely) an intellectual one? Stephen Grimm suggests that an understanding person judges other people’s moral failings accurately without being too permissive or too judgemental.

   • Author: Eva-Maria Düringer
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7. plato.stanford.edu › entries › moral-epistemology-aA Priorism in Moral Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of ...

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   Jun 28, 2016 · A Priorism in Moral Epistemology. First published Tue Jun 28, 2016; substantive revision Wed May 12, 2021. A priori knowledge is, in an important sense, independent of experience. In contrast, a posteriori knowledge depends on experiences such as empirical observations and introspection of one’s conscious states.