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1. • Closely related epistemic phenomena

     • 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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   Are moral understanding and moral knowledge related?

   • In particular, agents can achieve moral understanding of why, for example, sexual ha-rassment is morally wrong even when they lack the ability to articulate their understanding. This picture respects the intuitive thought that moral understanding and moral knowledge are closely related; it’s reductionist.

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   What is moral understanding?

   • MORAL UNDERSTANDING AS KNOWING RIGHT FROM WRONG I suggest that the capacity of moral understanding is the ability to acquire moral knowledge. The ability to acquire moral knowledge is constitutive of moral understanding. So, an agent has moral understanding if and only if (and to the degree to which) she has the ability to acquire moral knowl-edge.

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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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   Is moral knowledge a free-for-all?

   • On the Moral Knowledge Account then, the ability to acquire moral knowledge by testimony is partly constitutive of one’s capacity of moral understanding. But this does not make the capacity of moral understanding a free-for-all. Having the ability to acquire moral knowledge by testimony makes substantive epistemic demands on the agent. 57.

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3. www.journals.uchicago.edu › doi › pdfplusMoral Understanding as Knowing Right from Wrong

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   agents can achieve moral understanding of why, for example, sexual ha-rassment is morally wrong even when they lack the ability to articulate their understanding. This picture respects the intuitive thought that moral understanding and moral knowledge are closely related; it’s reductionist.

4. www.journals.uchicago.edu › doi › fullMoral Understanding as Knowing Right from Wrong* | Ethics ...

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   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.

   • Author: Paulina A. Sliwa

   • Publish Year: 2017

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

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   Feb 4, 2003 · How is moral knowledge possible? This question is central in moral epistemology and marks a cluster of problems. The most important are the following. Sociological: The best explanation of the depth of moral disagreements and the social diversity that they reflect is one of two things.

6. 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 ...

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7. plato.stanford.edu › entries › kant-moralKant’s Moral Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Feb 23, 2004 · 1. Aims and Methods of Moral Philosophy. 2. Good Will, Moral Worth and Duty. 3. Duty and Respect for Moral Law. 4. Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives. 5. The Formula of the Universal Law of Nature. 6. The Humanity Formula. 7. The Autonomy Formula. 8. The Kingdom of Ends Formula.

   • Author: Robert Johnson, Adam Cureton

   • Publish Year: 2004

8. plato.stanford.edu › entries › moral-theoryMoral Theory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Jun 27, 2022 · Moral Theory. First published Mon Jun 27, 2022. There is much disagreement about what, exactly, constitutes a moral theory. Some of that disagreement centers on the issue of demarcating the moral from other areas of practical normativity, such as the ethical and the aesthetic.

9. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › absMoral Worth and Moral Knowledge - Sliwa - 2016 - Philosophy ...

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   Jun 12, 2015 · Moral Worth and Moral Knowledge †. Paulina Sliwa. First published: 12 June 2015. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12195. Citations: 42. †. Many people have helped me think through the issues in this paper.