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The task of moral self-cultivation is the task of "extending" what is natural.
The task of moral theory is to reconstruct the unconditional force of such obligations as impartial dictates of practical reason that hold for any similarly situated agent.
On any realistic account, a central task of moral reasoning is to sort out relevant considerations from irrelevant ones, as well as to determine which are especially relevant and which only slightly so.
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Cardano thinks that the principal task of a moral philosopher should be that of freeing the mind from misapprehensions and prejudices: "There are many people who prefer to be happy in a mistaken way rather than acknowledge the reality of their affairs and their condition" (De utilitate, OO, II, 24b).
After only a few months, Franklin abandoned his project of moral renovation: "I soon found that I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined".
To bring these conflicts and confusions to light and to explore new ways of managing them is a task for moral theorists of the present and of the future.
As these technologies become a more integral part of daily activities, automate more decision-making processes and continue to transform the way people communicate and relate to each other, they further complicate the already problematic tasks of attributing moral responsibility.
Kiehl conducts research on psychopathy in New Mexico state prisons in which he and colleagues collect life histories, anatomical brain scans, and fMRI scans of brain activity as inmates perform various tasks, including tests of moral reasoning.
Judgments of integrity would thus involve judgment about the reasonableness of others' moral points of view, rather than the absolute correctness of their view (Ashford) or the intellectual responsibility with which they generally approach the task of thinking about moral questions (Halfon).
For the moral reasoner, a crucial task for our capacities of moral recognition is to mark out certain features of a situation as being morally salient.
But she does shoulder the related task of making sense of moral reasoning, and of explaining the point of fictive use of moral sentences.
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