PSY 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychopathy Checklist, Prima Facie, Psychopathy
11 Sep 2016
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Prototypical moral violations: hitting another; pulling hair; pushing. Prototypical conventional violations: chewing gum in class; drinking soup out of a bowl. M/c distinctions: seriousness, generalizability, authority (in)dependence, explanations for why the violation is wrong. Antisocial lifestyle: juvenile delinquency, early behavior problems, etc. Psychopathic personality: failure to accept responsibility, lack of empathy/remorse/guilt, etc. Argument against rationalism: psychopaths have defective capacity for moral judgment, this defective capacity cannot be explained by a deficit in rational capacities, the capacity for moral judgment does not derive solely from rational capacities. Psychopaths have hypoactive amygdala"s disabling them to feel certain things. Intelligence defect that is present in psychopaths but absent in: 4 year old children, autistic children, down syndrome children, control criminals. For all of these groups do draw the moral/conventional distinction. The source of morality isn"t from rationality, it"s from the emotions. Rationalism does not capture our concept of moral requirements.
