PHIL 2550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Principle Of Double Effect, Cognitive Load, Consequentialism
31 Jan 2017
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It"s the conclusion you draw at the end of a moral deliberation. Simply put, the position you take on a particular moral problem. A possible moral judgement in the transplant case one ought not to harvest organs from an innocent individual to save five other individuals . There is this role of intuition; there isn"t always a strict rational judgement. Linear: a child moves through clearly defined stages of cognitive development into adolescence and adulthood (there is a beginning and end) Problem with the model: domain general (all progression is lumped together unfer the broad term cognition ) Extends/refines aspects of piaget"s theory related to moral cognition. Both piaget and kholberg suggest a rational model for moral action. Plato"s republic opens with an appeal to rationalism as the best way to settle things: Rational model of moral action: deliberate rationally, then, apply the rational outcome in action. The rationale model is both descriptive and normative in nature.
