Justifying Ethical Propositions from the Perspective of Intuitionism

The present article seeks to explain and evaluate the theory of ethical intuitionism in justifying moral propositions. At first it explains the concept of justification using the task-oriented and voluntary views and examines the factors, structure, types and sources of justification based on Fumerton and Walter's theories through descriptive-analytic method. The author attempts to distinguish between philosophical justification and other common ethical justification among people. Since cognitivists and realists believe that the justification of ethical propositions are justifiable in comparison to other ethical views, the red lines between these theories and the opposite views have been carefully clarified in the form of a brief discussion. In the end, ethical intuitionism, as one of the most important and popular justifiable ideas in this field, has been surveyed. Moreover, weak and the strength points of the theory in justifying ethical propositions in comparison to the other types of justification are explained.