Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions

Moral Reasoning, Moral Judgment, and the Role of Intuition

This book presents an argument for the crucial role of moral reasoning in moral judgment, not by direct production, but through its influence on the formation and maintenance of moral intuitions. Hanno Sauer contends that rationalists about moral cognition are correct in asserting a rational foundation, even in the face of empirical challenges suggesting otherwise.

Sauer proposes that moral judgments stem from a stab…