According to Firth, an ideal observer has the following specific characteristics : omniscience with respect to nonmoral facts, omnipercipience, disinterestedness, dispassionateness, consistency, and normalcy in all other respects.
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While Adam Smith and David Hume are recognized to have espoused early versions of the ideal observer theory, Roderick Firth is responsible for starting a more sophisticated modern version.
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When we are " playing God or the ideal observer ", we use the specific form, and we will need to do this when we are deciding what general principles to teach and follow.
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In addition to the theories of moral realism, moral universalism includes other cognitivist moral theories, such as the subjectivist ideal observer theory and the divine command theory, and also the non-cognitivist moral theory of universal prescriptivism.
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Notice that, by defining an Ideal Observer as omniscient with respect to nonmoral facts, Firth avoids solar system is hardly something necessary to know to make a moral judgment about a case of theft or murder on Earth.
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This unbiased'ideal observer', when presented with an unfamiliar situation, would be able to immediately scan all potential consequences of all possible actions in order to frame a universal principle from which he / she could decide an appropriate action for the situation.
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"' Geisler ( 2003 ) "'( slightly reworded ) : The central concept in ideal observer analysis is the " ideal observer ", a theoretical device that performs a given task in an optimal fashion given the available information and some specified constraints.
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"' Geisler ( 2003 ) "'( slightly reworded ) : The central concept in ideal observer analysis is the " ideal observer ", a theoretical device that performs a given task in an optimal fashion given the available information and some specified constraints.
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In other words, ideal observer theory states that ethical judgments should be interpreted as statements about the judgments that a neutral and fully informed observer would make; " " x " is good " means " an ideal observer would approve of " x " ".
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In other words, ideal observer theory states that ethical judgments should be interpreted as statements about the judgments that a neutral and fully informed observer would make; " " x " is good " means " an ideal observer would approve of " x " ".
