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Normative Internalism

Normative internalism is the view that moral reasons are inherently accessible to or knowable by individuals through their own perspective, feelings, or reasoning. In other words, if something is genuinely a moral reason—like feeling that helping someone is the right thing to do—then a person should be able to recognize or understand that reason from within their own mental states or perspective. It emphasizes that moral reasons are internally accessible, meaning people don’t need to look outside their own minds or rely on external facts to determine what they ought to do.