ABSTRACT
Postmodern theories of morality are currently popular with many religious ethicists, including Christian ethicists. Despite this, an illustration like the one above may raise important questions as to the alleged impossibility of a universal, objective morality. It presents a picture of morality that believes more congruent with how most ordinary people come to make basic moral judgments. According to this picture, there is a morality which all human beings share by virtue of being human, a morality that can be epistemically independent upon their particular historical or social context. The morality 'commonsense morality' and the ethical theory that undergirds this morality 'intuitionism'. The intuitionism in terms of its main features and significance. There is, in fact, a philosophical tradition called the 'commonsense tradition' that holds there are some commonsense moral propositions that can be known to be true a priori by most human beings.
