Abstract
W.D. Ross’s contribution to normative ethics is a remarkable attempt to bring together ethics, understood as a philosophical discipline, and the pre-philosophical intuitions which guide the daily decision processes of the average moral agent. Ross achieves this result by assuming intuitionist epistemic foundations as the building blocks of his prima facie duties deontology. Even though such a consideration for the most common ethical intuitions may seem an advantage as a starting point for ethical theory, I attempt to demonstrate in this paper that the main flaws of Ross’s deontology are present precisely in the epistemic principles which serve as its foundation.
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