Is morality an elegant machine or a kludge?
Journal of Cognition and Culture 6 (1-2):181-189 (2006)
| Abstract | In a passage in A Theory of Justice, which has become increasingly influential in recent years, John Rawls (1971) noted an analogy between moral phi- losophy and grammar. Moral philosophy, or at least the first stage of moral philosophy, Rawls maintained, can be thought of as the attempt to describe our moral capacity – the capacity which underlies “the poten- tially infinite number and variety of [moral] judgments we are prepared.. | |||||||||
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