PSY 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moral Psychology, Determinacy

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 348
• Professor: Theresa Lopez

Document Summary

Attempts to provide systematic answers to these very general moral questions about what to do and how to be. Because moral theorists have given different answers to these questions, we find a variety of competing moral theories. Theory of right conduct: giving an account of the nature of right and wrong action. Theory of value: giving an account of the nature of intrinsic value. There are two fundamental aims of moral theory: one practical, the other theoretical. Practical aim: to discover a decision procedure that can be used to guide correct moral reasoning about matters of moral concern. Theoretical aim: to discover those underlying features of actions, persons, and other items of moral evaluation that make them right or wrong, good or bad. Moral principles: to be understood as very general moral statements that purport to set forth conditions under which an action is right or wrong or something is good or bad: e. g.