Moral Complications and Moral Structures

Abstract

shall discuss some problems in representing one structure which may be exhibited by part of the moral views of some people. In par- ticular, I shall be concerned with formulating a structure which would gen- erate (or play a role in the generation of) a person's judgments about the moral impermissibility of specific actions. I do not claim that everyone's moral views exhibit the structure I shall discuss, nor do I claim that there is some one structure which everyone's moral views exhibit. Perhaps people's actual moral views differ in structure. Why I consider the particular structure I work towards worthy of discussion, given only the weak claim that some people's views may exhibit it (and perhaps only at a superficial level), will become clear as I proceed.