moral intuition
Innate right-wrong sense
Moral intuition is the immediate sense that something is right or wrong without conscious reasoning—a gut feeling about ethics.
Philosophers debate whether these intuitions reflect genuine moral knowledge or mere cultural conditioning.
My moral intuition tells me this is wrong, even if I can't articulate why.
The term appears frequently in ethics discussions about how we form and justify moral judgments.
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- gut reactionImmediate unthinking feeling
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
right · wrong · doing the right thing · judgment · empathy · fairness · justice · sense · inner voice · still small voice · inner light · compass · virtue · scruple · hunch · taboo · disgust · guilt
- valuesvalue, honesty, worth, fairness, good
- ethicsdeontology, dignity, sanctity of life, utilitarianism, consequentialism
- moral philosophyethics, consequentialism, utilitarianism, deontology, intuitionism
- moral emotionsguilt, shame, remorse, conscience, compunction
- moral psychologyconscience, ethical reasoning, ethical dilemmas
- metaethicsnon-cognitivism, cognitivism, prescriptivism, externalism, open question
moral intuitionmoral reasoning
Evaluating right and wrong
moral calculus · cost-benefit analysis · moral philosophy · logical deduction
moral intuitiondivine command
Directive from a god
social convention · moral code · religious doctrine · ethical code · moral law
moral, morals, morality, morally, immoral, immorality, amoral, amorality, moralizing