So non-naturalists tend to be more interested than their opponents in respecting our pre-theoretical intuitions about morality and moral judgement.
In a nutshell, only the 'Common-Sense Morality' theoretical position was amply supported.
This method would take current and past customs and laws as data for moral theory, in conjunction with the history and anthropology of custom, the history of systematic theoretical reflection on morality, and the social sciences, which inform us of the probable consequences of attempting to institute this or that new law or custom (E 178 9).
First, he in effect argues that any plausible interpretation of our pre-theoretical beliefs about morality will presuppose non-naturalism.
Although some moral learning may result from the theoretical work of moral philosophers and theorists, much of what we learn with regard to morality surely arises in the practical context of deliberation about new and difficult cases.
In short, the pairing encourages us to see The Death of Ivan Ilyich as a fictional exploration of the theoretical problems of religion, morality, and mortality explored autobiographically in Confession.
As was mentioned, for Schleiermacher religion is based neither on theoretical knowledge nor on morality.
Of course, we also reason theoretically about what morality requires of us; but the nature of purely theoretical reasoning about ethics is adequately addressed in the various articles on ethics.
The entities encountered included not only ideas and moralities derived from theoretical notions such as Locke's 'natural rights', but also the soil and water on diverse lands, and the beings living or made to live on these lands.
(c) Such theories distract people from recognizing, and working to reinforce, the real foundations of morality: not an imaginary theoretical insight of some sort, but a set of causal mechanisms for inculcating and sustaining the moral sentiments.
