HETHICS PRELIMS

MORAL PRINCIPLES
Principles
It is that from which something
proceeds in any manner whatsoever
a fundamental truth or proposition
that serves as the foundation for a
system of belief or behavior or for a
chain of reasoning.
a fundamental source or basis of
something.
Examples of principles:
Descriptive comprehensive and
fundamental law, doctrine, or
assumption
Normative rule or code of
conduct
Law or fact of nature underlying
the working of an artificial
device

to guide or justify moral action

Moral principles
Moral principles refers to a
fundamental rule of moral law which
contains certain moral truth from
which knowledge of a definite moral
action for performance proceeds
Roles of the moral principles
>to explain particular moral truths

PREMISES TO THE EXISTENCE OF MORAL

PRINCIPLES.
-Curtis brown
There are some particular moral
truths
one action is morally preferable to the
other, not that someone prefers it or exhorts
its performance or expresses approval of it,
but that an act is genuinely morally better
than another act
Moral truths must be explicable
there will must an explanation of why
an act is better than the other. It is hard to
see how the moral preferability of one action
over another could be simply some sort of
brute fact, incapable of further explanation.
the explanation of a particular
moral truth requires that there be
a moral principle.
the explanation that one action is
preferable than the other that links both
actions with moral preferability is a moral
principle