His major work espousing a form of moral sense theory is " An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit " ( first published in an unauthorized edition in 1699 ).
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One may thus distinguish between rationalist ethical intuitionism for the rationalist version and " moral sense theory " for the empiricist version . ( This will be the use of the terms here.
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Others take the view to be primarily about the nature of justifying moral beliefs ( a primarily epistemological view ) this form of the view more often goes by the name " moral sense theory ".
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Generally speaking, rationalist ethical intuitionism models the acquisition of such non-inferential moral knowledge on " a priori ", non-empirical knowledge, such as knowledge of mathematical truths; whereas moral sense theory models the acquisition of such non-inferential moral knowledge on empirical knowledge, such as knowledge of the colors of objects ( see moral sense theory ).
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Generally speaking, rationalist ethical intuitionism models the acquisition of such non-inferential moral knowledge on " a priori ", non-empirical knowledge, such as knowledge of mathematical truths; whereas moral sense theory models the acquisition of such non-inferential moral knowledge on empirical knowledge, such as knowledge of the colors of objects ( see moral sense theory ).
