PHIL 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vincible Ignorance, Moral Reasoning
10 Apr 2020
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Erroneous conscience: we make the wrong choice due to missing information. (caused by vincible or invincible ignorance) Vincible ignorance: you do all the necessary steps but you ignore the information that goes against what you believe. Invincible ignorance: you did all the necessary steps to gather the information but you still made the (objectively) wrong choice. Pre-conventional: fear drives us to do an action. Stage 1: punishment- obedience: concern is with the physical consequences of an. Example: food chemical: kohlberg"s stages six stages of moral development. Developed a human development a six stage process on how humans think. Stage 2: instrumental: what will this action do for me? act. Conventional: you are thinking about others, you are part of a society and interpersonal relationships are important. Stage 3: interpersonal conformity: doing what is nice, what is approved of. | Stage 4: law and order orientation: impersonal authority of the law takes precedence over the personal loyalties of stage3.
