do human beings have moral intuition? G.E. Moore

MORAL INTUITION

INTRODUCTION

Everyday , we people are faced with different decisions to make . These are decisions that regards career , action towards family members friends and even in their relationship with God . Basically , people are always in constant dilemma on how they will live their lives . Their actions are their lives in general . What they manifest are their lives Actions mirror who they are and what they are . People are always in search everyday of the right actions . This search is constantly present and a life long act of people

People

always think on how they will manifest their lives . Actions are always responses to something . People are confronted with different circumstances . Actions are the way people react to own desires and situations . People are always in the center of deciding what to do . They are always in the center because there are two poles of actions . One pole is to manifest badness and the other is to manifest goodness . The two poles are completely opposite and man is put in the middle thinking what to embody

There are many criteria for an act to be right . There are many ethical theories and standards made available by different thinkers and even ordinary people . Some of the criteria for an action were adapted by the society . It is embedded in their culture and tradition . Some criteria for the rightness and wrongness of actions were even put and translated into laws . These are the laws that people follow everyday

Laws are the criteria that society uses to check and restrain people from doing bad things . Bad things are seen as actions that may inflict harm to other people and the society in general . As a product of reason people made laws to protect themselves . People , in a deliberate act of protecting themselves , they form conventions and made social contracts to attain such goal . It is in the state of nature of people that they desire for protection and security . People always would want to protect themselves from harm

In this we will dwell on two cases of moral dilemma and try to find out what act must be appropriate to such situations

When the doctor is on drugs I . The doctor is caught in between his moral duties , as a doctor , and as friend . As A doctor , he ought to serve the best interest of his profession , that is , to render health and medical services to the patient , vis-a-vis , to uphold and save life of the patients . As a friend , he ought to protect the interest and profession of his co-physician-cum-personal friend so as not to embarrassed to the medical society and denigrated by society , and be devastated in his life and his profession

The doctor ought to be careful with his action to produce the greatest good possible . This is inline with the theory of George Edward Moore on intuitive apprehension

The proper course of action depends upon a condition that such action must yield or produce the most consequential benefit...