
When we examine the causes of what are said to be ethical intuitions, we find that they are to be found mainly in the emotions of praise or blame felt in our social environment, but partly also in our own emotions of love or hate, dominance or submission, and so on. Differences as to moral rules have their source partly in differences as to matters of fact (for instance, as to the possibility of witchcraft), but partly also in emotional differences between different individuals or communities. It seems therefore, that there is no reason to assume such a thing as “moral intuition”, and that when I say that an act is “objectively right” I am really expressing an emotion, though grammatically I seem to be making an assertion.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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客観的な証拠に基づいていると思っていても、強い主張の大部分は、その人や社会の情緒的表現にすぎないことが多いという指摘です。
なお、倫理的直観(ethical intuitions)と「道徳的直観」(moral intuition)とを微妙に区別をしていますので、注意が必要です。
Ethical intuitionism is the idea that people can access objective moral information through intuition. Moral intuition is a quick, instinctive sense of right and wrong.
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