DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Load, Deontological Ethics, Social Intuitionism
Document Summary
The moral force in personality is cognitive . Mediated by the sheer number of considerations that they thought about while making the decision. Moral myopia consists of singularly attending to one salient aspect of a moral problem rather than thinking about multiple moral considerations: dual-process model. Moral judgment is often driven by automatic, unreasoned processes, but that more deliberate reasoning can overrule these processes. Two cognitive systems with two distinct systems of normative ethics. Intuition is said to promote moral judgments that adhere to deontological constraints, while reason is said to promote judgments that maximize utilitarian good: social intuitionist model. Moral judgments are nearly always caused by automatic, often emotional, intuitions . Moral reasoning takes place only after a judgment is made, in order to justify it. Moral reasoning may drive moral judgment under certain unusual circumstances or for certain unusual people (such as professional philosophers) Internal reasoning as such will play no role in producing moral judgements.
