Ethics and Values / Unit 1 Ethics 012 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Factual Premises and Moral Premises
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The idea
A moral argument runs on two kinds of premise: factual premises report how the world is, and at least one moral premise supplies the should.
In practice
"The proposed curfew closes the night shelters; policies that close shelters wrong the people sleeping there; so the curfew is wrong." One fact, one should.
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