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Can moral decisions be made on a completely codified, algorithmic basis, or are there fundamental weaknesses to this approach to moral decision making?

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Contemporary normative ethics is dominated by three movements: deontological ethics, with a focus on duties or obligations; consequentialism, with a distinctive emphasis on the outcomes of actions; and virtue ethics, which is centred on the moral agent. Because it rejects rule-based accounts of ethics (like consequentialism and deontological ethics), virtue ethics dedicates special attention to our capacity for moral judgment, understood as a practical capacity that cannot be reduced to propositional knowledge. In this article, I will analyse the nature of moral motivation (1) and the idea of moral perception in virtue ethics (2), the structure of moral judgment (3), its relation to rules or principles (4) and, finally, the conditions of its reliability (5).

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