The Methods of Ethics

CHAPTER VIII

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INTUITIONISM

1. I apply the term Intuitional--in the narrower of two legitimate senses--to distinguish a method in which the rightness of some kinds of action is assumed to be known without consideration of ulterior consequences. 96-98

2. The common antithesis between Intuitive and Inductive is inexact, since this method does not necessarily proceed from the universal to the particular. We may distinguish Perceptional Intuitionism, according to which it is always the rightness of some particular action that is held to be immediately known: 98-100

3. Dogmatic Intuitionism, in which the general rules of Common Sense are accepted as axiomatic: 100-101

4. Philosophical Intuitionism, which attempts to find a deeper explanation for these current rules. 101-103

Note 103-104