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Between the virtuous and the vicious are the "innocently wrong," people who adopt wrong moral principles or make wrong choices, not through evasion but through an error of judgment (Rand does not explicitly recognize any moral category other than virtue, vice, and moral error, although her novels portray characters that do not easily fit into any of these categories).
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Many philosophers have argued that people make decisions about what's right and wrong based on moral principles and rational thought.
Or one might instead hold that the ultimate moral principles that fix what is right and wrong are well suited to be practical decision making guides.
The answer, I think, is that we suppose that without moral principles there could be no such thing as the difference between right and wrong.
The other judges said that any rule has got to be interpreted against the background of some general moral principles, one of which was that people can't profit through their own deliberate wrong.
Who would you trust more, someone whose moral principles are absolute, black and white, or someone who carefully considers the rights and wrongs of specific situations before leaping to judgment?
According to Dancy, theories that accord an important justificatory role to moral principles, as most methodological approaches in bioethics do, wrongly assume that right- or wrong-making features of various situations must remain constant from one case to another.
Not moral principles, but epistemic first principles.
But the legal and moral principles?
"He has rather strange moral principles.
I know Viktor has moral principles".
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