Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: Operative principles and the causal structure of moral actions Export

@article{Hauer, abstract = {The thesis we develop in this essay is that all humans are endowed with a moral faculty. The moral faculty enables us to produce moral judgments on the basis of the causes and consequences of actions. As an empirical research program, we follow the framework of modern linguistics. 1 The spirit of the argument dates back at least to the economist Adam Smith (1759/1976) who argued for something akin to a moral grammar, and more recently, to the political philosopher John Rawls (1971). The logic of the argument, however, comes from Noam Chomsky?s thinking on language specifically and the nature of knowledge more generally (1986; 1988; 2000; Saporta, 1978).}, author = {Hauer, M. D. and Young, L. and Cushman, F.}, citeulike-article-id = {802793}, journal = {Moral Psychology and Biology}, keywords = {action, analogy, causal, ethics, morality, rawls, structure}, pdf = {http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/\%7Emnkylab/publications/recent/ReviveRawslChpt.pdf}, posted-at = {2006-08-16 16:03:49}, priority = {2}, title = {Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: Operative principles and the causal structure of moral actions} }

TY - JOUR ID - Hauer L3 - citeulike-article-id:802793 N2 - The thesis we develop in this essay is that all humans are endowed with a moral faculty. The moral faculty enables us to produce moral judgments on the basis of the causes and consequences of actions. As an empirical research program, we follow the framework of modern linguistics. 1 The spirit of the argument dates back at least to the economist Adam Smith (1759/1976) who argued for something akin to a moral grammar, and more recently, to the political philosopher John Rawls (1971). The logic of the argument, however, comes from Noam Chomsky?s thinking on language specifically and the nature of knowledge more generally (1986; 1988; 2000; Saporta, 1978). JF - Moral Psychology and Biology TI - Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: Operative principles and the causal structure of moral actions KW - action KW - analogy KW - causal KW - ethics KW - morality KW - rawls KW - structure AU - Hauer, MD AU - Young, L AU - Cushman, F ER -