PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parallel Computing, Moral Psychology, Social Intuitionism
10 Sep 2015
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Intuitive learning: moral paradoxes contradictions between intuitive judgments and reasoned judgments. Reasoning exists, and it has an important purpose. But it has a relatively smaller role in determining our moral judgments. Evaluations of the actions or character of a person. Made with respect to a set of virtues held to be obligatory by a culture or subculture. Moral judgments are almost exclusively the result of intuition. Moral truths/judgments are not evident until a rational analysis of all pertinent factors has been performed. One acts a judge while performing their moral reasoning. They carefully weigh issues of harm, rights, justice and fairness. One comes to the rational conclusion that they should not have sex because of harm: emotional (guilt, shame, embarrassment) Family shame: genetic deformities in potential offspring, moral intuition. Moral truths/judgments are automatic, they are self-evident. The intuition comes first, and then this is followed by a rational justification of the intuition.
