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Frontiers of Philosophy in China

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Front Phil Chin    2009, Vol. 4 Issue (2) : 238-250    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-009-0015-4
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Moral instinct and moral judgment
NI Liangkang()
Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Human beings’ moral life can be divided into two forms, one based on moral instincts and the other on moral judgments. The former is carried on without deliberation, while the latter relies upon valuations and judgments. The two can ultimately be viewed as man’s innate moral nature and acquired moral conventions. Theoretically, preference for the former will lead to naturalism and for the latter to culturalism, but this is the reality of man’s moral life. Moreover, there may be a parallel relation between the moral structure of human life and the grammatical structure of human language.

Keywords moral nature      moral convention      origin of moral consciousness     
Corresponding Author(s): NI Liangkang,Email:hssnlk@mail.sysu.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 05 June 2009
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NI Liangkang. Moral instinct and moral judgment[J]. Front Phil Chin, 2009, 4(2): 238-250.
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