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Do We Have Any Good Reasons to Trust Our Moral Intuition?

In this essay, I argue that moral intuitions should be trusted because they motivate individuals and commit them to act with immediacy. While achieving this, passions guide moral reasoning, which, through reflective equilibrium, evaluates the initial judgement and adjusts intuition if necessary. The fusion of prima facie with rationality, drawing from predominantly intuitive a posteriori experiences while refining them with a priori knowledge, will produce reliable moral judgements.

This is an entry to the Philosophy category of the 2024 John Locke Global Essay Prize. I was honoured to have received a "Very High Commendation" (equivalent to previous High Distinction, awarded to top 1% of entry).

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