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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals

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Sidwig's Intuitionism

I think there are different intuitions and Sidwig who you know argued that there are self-evident axioms described this as philosophical intuitionism. I'm able to say that because we're talking about our own kind of psychological preferences when we come to a conclusion that seems repugnant we can use that as reason to distrust it but I'm not sure you can do the same thing if you're not basing morality on that. The good of any one person in the universe is as important as the good of any other on a moral theory, says John Rawls.

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