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There have been three good trends in moral and political philosophy over the last fifty years or so. First, there has been a trend toward rejecting special foundations, a trend that is exemplified by the widespread adoption of the method John Rawls adopts, in which particular judgments and principles are adjusted to each other in an attempt to reach
“reflective equilibrium.”1 Second, there have been attempts to use intuitions about particular
cases in order to arrive at new and often arcane moral principles like that of double effect, as in discussions of so-called trolley problems.2 Third, and perhaps most important, there has been increased interaction between scientific and philosophical studies of morality, as for example in philosophical reactions to psychological accounts of moral development and
evolutionary explanations of aspects of morality.
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