{"id":23697,"date":"2024-09-07T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T10:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=23697"},"modified":"2024-09-07T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T12:02:59","slug":"philosophical-discourse-for-ethical-deliberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/philosophical-discourse-for-ethical-deliberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Discourse for Ethical Deliberation | Ethics for UPSC Civil Services Examination | Triumph IAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22780\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/A-Comprehensive-Classroom-cum-Test-Series-1-150x58.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/A-Comprehensive-Classroom-cum-Test-Series-1-150x58.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/A-Comprehensive-Classroom-cum-Test-Series-1-300x115.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >What's Inside this Blog!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/philosophical-discourse-for-ethical-deliberation\/#Philosophical_Discourse_for_Ethical_Deliberation\" title=\"Philosophical Discourse for Ethical Deliberation\">Philosophical Discourse for Ethical Deliberation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/philosophical-discourse-for-ethical-deliberation\/#Relevant_for_Public_Ethics_Integrity_and_Aptitude\" title=\"[Relevant for Public Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude]\">[Relevant for Public Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude]<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/philosophical-discourse-for-ethical-deliberation\/#Philosophical_Discourse_for_Ethical_Deliberation-2\" title=\"Philosophical Discourse for Ethical Deliberation\">Philosophical Discourse for Ethical Deliberation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/philosophical-discourse-for-ethical-deliberation\/#EthicsBlogoTerms\" title=\"#EthicsBlogoTerms\">#EthicsBlogoTerms<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/philosophical-discourse-for-ethical-deliberation\/#Related_Blogs_%E2%80%A6\" title=\"Related Blogs &#8230;\">Related Blogs &#8230;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/philosophical-discourse-for-ethical-deliberation\/#Find_More_Blogs%E2%80%A6\" title=\"Find More Blogs&#8230;\">Find More Blogs&#8230;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Philosophical_Discourse_for_Ethical_Deliberation\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Philosophical Discourse for Ethical Deliberation<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relevant_for_Public_Ethics_Integrity_and_Aptitude\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><em>[Re<span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">levant for Public <\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude<\/strong><\/em><em><b>]<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23715\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/23305848-bdd4-46b2-b442-08a5c540f7c3.avif\" alt=\"Philosophical Discourse for Ethical Deliberation\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Philosophical_Discourse_for_Ethical_Deliberation-2\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #993366; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Philosophical Discourse for Ethical Deliberation<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Ethics postulates, regulates and guides human life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Moral ideals are directly applied to human behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">What is more intimately connected to practical side of philosophical discourse is ethical deliberation. As human consciousness is in a process of becoming, human person is becoming moral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Human person is in a never-ending search for oneself. The more one becomes conscious of oneself, the more he or she is oneself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The emergence of moral precepts of human conduct has this background. What and how a human person is and should be from the fundamental moral precept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Ethical codes cannot be deduced or inferred from mere logical ideas and abstract speculations of what should be and what ought to be etc. Human concrete existence is more than logic and ideas. Ethics as both normative and applied needs to be mutually enriching each other with contemporary functions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Every person is and is in becoming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Everyone is both essence and existence, act and potency, act in potency, spirit body and free yet existentially situated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Human person is both an end in oneself and for others. Moral law is out of the tension between the \u201cis\u201d and the \u201cought-to-be\u201d, between intuition and experience, or the a priori and the a posteriori, between the static and the dynamic, the constant and the variable, and the absolute and the relative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In the language of moral philosophers, moral law includes not only general and abstract rules of action, e.g. do good and avoid evil, but also concrete moral precepts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Ethics is the philosophical treatise which studies human behavior and tries to determine what is right or wrong behavior. It is also called moral philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Our study of ethics is also conditioned by some philosophical assumptions, such as the possibility of meta-empirical knowledge, the ontological structure of reality and man as a rational and free being. In short, ethics attempts to understand what is right and what is not and to see the possibility of practical conduct from these objective norms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>First,<\/strong> the moral law is called law only metaphorically or if it confers analogically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The primary meaning of law is the rule of action, promulgated by him or her who is in charge of a community in view of the common good. This is called positive law. If the legislator is considered to be God, it is divine positive law. If the legislator is a human person, it is human positive law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Human positive law can further be subdivided according to what the common good aimed, civil law, criminal law, commercial law, etc. In a case, a positive law lay down rules to be observed by human persons. It is prescription.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Then there is another sense of law which is quite different. In this sense, it is formula expressing a constant of behavior of things and of person. So, we have physical law including law studied in physics, chemistry, biology, etc., psychological law, sociological law, etc. Since the constant of behavior among human person is less fixed and foreseeable than that among things, it is more of a statistical constant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">As distinct from positive law, this kind of law is called natural law. It is descriptive. It can also be called prescriptive to the extent it is considered as built by God and includes the divine positive law and descriptive to the extent and that this divine law is the ultimate cause of the constant of behavior in things and human persons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">However, moral law corresponds exactly neither to the positive law nor to the natural law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">On the contrary, the sense of the absolute should is an immediate datum of the moral conscious itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Secondly,<\/strong> in the language of moral philosophers, moral law includes not only general and abstract rules of action or in your or in our language, the sense of the absolute should but also particular and concrete precepts, help the poor, obey legitimate authority, be truthful, do not kill the innocent, adultery is wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23698\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-150x150.png\" alt=\"How are the general data of the moral consciousness particularized and concretized in specific precepts and what is the cause of this difference among them? In terms of moral value, we can raise this question as follows. If the moral value par excellence is human person's self-realization as human now, can this moral value determine specific moral values and why is this disagreement as to whether such and such an action is a good moral value or not? Moral Intuitionism All deontological theories agree that there must exist some rule or law which enforces moral value and that it is natural to human person intuitively known. Then is then an element of intuition in all of them no matter how they conceive of it and the way they approach it. Whether it is Conscience, Occam, Logos, Stoics, Moral Sense, Shaftesbury, the a priori, Categorical Imperative, Kant, Right Reason, Thomas Aquinas and Suarez. This element of moral intuition is also found in deontological theories whether implicitly or even explicitly. It is implicitly found in the concept of Autoraxia, Epicurus and that of Eudaimonia, Aristotle and explicitly in the concept of Right Reason, Hobbes in the conscientious feelings of mankind, or in Mill\u2019s Social Utilitarianism. And in fact, the more the idea of moral obligation is prominent in an ethical theory, the more explicit becomes the recourse to this element of intuition or direct perception.\" width=\"810\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1.png 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">How are the general data of the moral consciousness particularized and concretized in specific precepts and what is the cause of this difference among them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In terms of moral value, we can raise this question as follows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">If the moral value par excellence is human person&#8217;s self-realization as human now, can this moral value determine specific moral values and why is this disagreement as to whether such and such an action is a good moral value or not?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Moral Intuitionism<\/strong><\/span> All deontological theories agree that there must exist some rule or law which enforces moral value and that it is natural to human person intuitively known. Then is then an element of intuition in all of them no matter how they conceive of it and the way they approach it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Whether it is Conscience, Occam, Logos, Stoics, Moral Sense, Shaftesbury, the a priori, Categorical Imperative, Kant, Right Reason, Thomas Aquinas and Suarez. This element of moral intuition is also found in deontological theories whether implicitly or even explicitly. It is implicitly found in the concept of Autoraxia, Epicurus and that of Eudaimonia, Aristotle and explicitly in the concept of Right Reason, Hobbes in the conscientious feelings of mankind, or in Mill\u2019s Social Utilitarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">And in fact, the more the idea of moral obligation is prominent in an ethical theory, the more explicit becomes the recourse to this element of intuition or direct perception.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 629px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #f0ebeb;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 120px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.1852%; height: 84px; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Ethical theory<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.1358%; height: 84px; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Virtue-based<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.9629%; height: 84px; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Duty-based (deontology)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.7161%; height: 84px; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Consequentialism (utilitarianism)<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 88px; text-align: justify;\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.1852%; height: 61px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Perspective<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.1358%; height: 61px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Actor-based<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.9629%; height: 61px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Action-based<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.7161%; height: 61px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Action-based<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 372px; text-align: justify;\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.1852%; height: 286px; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Features<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.1358%; height: 286px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Emphasis placed on character and motivation<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.9629%; height: 286px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Emphasis on the manner of the action; act out of a sense of duty; moral rules are those that pass the categorical imperative test; means count; never right to treat people as just means to an end<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.7161%; height: 286px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Emphasis on the outcome or outcome of the action; no action in itself is good or bad; ends count<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 214px; text-align: justify;\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.1852%; height: 153px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Morally correct action<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.1358%; height: 153px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Right action is that which a virtuous person would do<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.9629%; height: 153px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Right action is that following duty<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.7161%; height: 153px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Right action is that with the greatest usefulness; greatest good for the greatest number<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 43px; text-align: justify;\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.1852%; height: 35px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Strengths<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.1358%; height: 35px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">More personal; supports actions done for virtuous reasons; not bound by rules<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.9629%; height: 35px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Sets clear rules\/moral boundaries; follow duty not inclination; based on reason no subjectivity; consistent<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.7161%; height: 35px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Practical; flexible; results orientated; no conflicting rules; moral form of democracy<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 43px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.1852%; height: 10px; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Weaknesses<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 24.1358%; height: 10px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">No universally agreed list of virtues; concerned with good character rather than the specific problem; difficulties in resolving moral conflicts or competing claims in practice; may do harm despite virtue<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.9629%; height: 10px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Questions about where rules originate; can be inflexible; not as simple as consequentialism; difficulties when rules conflict; follow duty regardless of results; ends cannot justify means even if outcome is good<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 27.7161%; height: 10px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Relies on single criterion when many factors need to be considered; difficulties in identifying who and what should be considered; difficulties quantifying utility; uncertainties in consequences of actions\/speculative; can lack justice; does not consider individual rights; ends can justify means; bad or unjust acts permissible<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">This element of intuition is strongly emphasized by meta-ethicists who maintain that moral language is objective and therefore informative. But here again they differ as to what the object of this moral intuition is. This difference is explainable by the difference in their meta-ethical theories regarding the meaning of moral good. Hence for some, this object is the rightness of specific acts. For others, it is a kind of moral property, simply, simple, and indefinable in non-moral terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">For others, it is a general principle, the principle of utility itself, or a set of principles, of fidelity, preparation, gratitude, justice, beneficence, self-improvement, and maleficence. In ethics, the philosophy which consists on the necessity of moral intuition is called ethical intuitionism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">But even the most insistent of our moral philosophers on this element of intuition is the moral consciousness namely Kant. Not only does he not deny but on the contrary explicitly states that the moral judgment includes elements derived from experience which are therefore a posteriori as opposed to the a priori elements. Kant denies the possibility of deriving particular and concrete moral precepts from the concept of practical reason alone. For this the study of human nature is necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Similarly, Thomas Aquinas distinguishes between the first principles of the synderesis which are self-evident intuitively known by all and which cannot be detected from the human heart and the secondary and more specific principles which are derived from the former. As if by way of conclusion from premises what is implied here is that the secondary principles require reflection. Thomas speaks of the difficulty involved in applying general principles to concrete cases even though principles whether theoretical or practical can be evident in themselves they may not be so evident to us and this is due according to Thomas to wrong persuasion on part of the human person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Suarez is perhaps even more explicit in his doctrine that even the secondary principles which like the primary are self-evident in themselves require a certain amount of thought and experience. This is truer to the tertiary principles which require study and discursive thought. But all moral principles can be derived from the self-evident principle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">One notable difference between Thomas and Suarez is that the former derives the concrete principles in a way corresponding to human person&#8217;s natural inclinations. The latter derives them in a way corresponding to a legal system. For Suarez, these precepts have their immediate norm, the good of human nature. The need of experience and reflection is similarly, indeed even more insisted upon by contemporary ethicists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Why this great insistence?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">What we are dealing with here is to see whether a general principle such as serious promise should not be lightly broken is self-evident and therefore be counted among the first principle intuitively known by everybody. If yes, how is it derived from the very first self-evident principle that good is to be done and evil to be avoided? Is it merely by a kind of logical deduction. If it is self-evident in itself not but not known by all; is it because of some accidental reason such as ignorance or bad habit. Finally if it is not self-evident; how is it that human person has today come to agree that such a general principle is correct that is really of\u00a0 amoral value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">To speak more specifically of thinkers like Thomas, Aquinas, Suarez and Ross, are we to say that the examples they give of first principle or of prima facie duties are meant to serve merely as examples or are we to say that they are meant to be included among the first principle themselves?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In the first case, we could perhaps disagree that the examples they give are good examples but still agree with their doctrine that there exist first principles intuitively known by every man. The question would be then, which are these first principles? In the second case, to question the aptness of the examples would be to question their doctrine itself, irrespective of what such thinkers actually mean, we have got to study the problem in itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">If there is any principle that cannot be denied, it is the immediate data of moral consciousness. If this data cannot be denied, they are self-evident. They are self-evident not as principles, that is, as formula, but as data whether they are thematically formulated or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The immediate ontological foundation of the moral obligation is human interrelatedness and that the norm for moral good as distinct from the moral right is human person as a social being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">We have also reflected how the only moral precept which is immediately given that is self-evident and cannot be justified on a mere moral level is that human person should be human as an individual and social being. Hence, all other precepts what we are here calling specifications of the moral law must somehow or other flow from this fundamental precept that a person should realize himself or herself as human.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Human consciousness is in the process of becoming. The more human person becomes himself or herself, the more he or she becomes conscious of what he or she should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">This leads to the emergence of moral precepts specifying even more, clearly the conduct of human person. Hence, the moral precepts i.e. moral values flow from the first fundamental moral precept that human person should be himself or herself. The moral value par excellence not by way of mere logical deduction or of mere immediate inference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It cannot be denied that this relation of the explicit to the implicit, of the clear to the unclear, to the unclear of the concrete, to the abstract is here present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">But, it is present in the sense that a continuously developing human consciousness is related to its stage, past and future of its development. Existence is more than logic. If that we are saying about the progressive development of human consciousness and therefore of moral consciousness is true, one can easily understand the development of morals from the caveman to modern human person, from ancient slavery to the universal declaration of human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Ignorance of the moral precept is therefore not necessarily the result of perverse customs as if this result were accidental.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It is a fact of experience that perverse customs not only weaken the will to pursue the moral good but darkens the mind to recognize what the moral good is. But that is more easily possible on an individual level. Here, we are placing ourselves on the level of mankind and its historical progress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">However, we must not easily take it for granted that this development has always and everywhere been a linear progress. It may have suffered setbacks, reverses and regress. Apart from the fact that one cannot predict the future, contemporary moral problems of the morality of abortion hinges to a great extent on whether one should consider the human foetus a human person. The so-called women&#8217;s liberation movement indicates, no matter what its merits and demerits are, that women have not been treated as full human persons everywhere in the world. 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