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Making moral decisions is a vastly complicated process. And in great degree the complexity is due to the various meanings that moral terms have. Learning to make moral decisions is, in large measure, learning to use words less ambiguously in order to be able to apply them properly.
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© 1965 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Kattsoff, L.O. (1965). Judging the Ends-The Good. In: Making Moral Decisions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9288-0_13
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