CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethical Dilemma, Radium, Japan Standard Time
16 Feb 2018
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What is morality: code of conduct put forward by a society/group, or accepted by an inidiudal for their own behaviour, ethical theories attempt to articulate in a principled way what the code of conduct should be. Cognitive science and morality: cog science can study morality jst as it can study perception, attention, emotion, etc, morality as a form of cognition: Relgiious or polotical authority: rationalist view: moral judgments are the result ofabstract reasoning and reflection, children figure out morality for themselves, rather than through experience, morality develops i(cid:374) stages. We do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)e e(cid:395)uipped (cid:449)ith i(cid:374)(cid:374)ate (cid:373)o(cid:396)al (cid:396)ules, (cid:271)ut (cid:449)ith a(cid:374) innate capacity to develop into moral agents. Piaget and "na ve physics: chidren not bor with innate understanding of conversation laws. |in europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There as one drug that the doctors thought might save her.
