PHILOS 2CT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Executive Functions, Moral Agency, Moral Psychology
18 Sep 2016
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Moral decisions have a lot of impact on our relationships and self-image. Major debate right now pits emotion against reason, one side saying moral judgement follows emotional reactions, the other asserting the role of conscious reasoning when arriving at moral conclusions. Those who focus on hypothetical moral dilemmas, will see moral judgement as result of deliberative abstract reasoning. Those who focus on reacting t transgressions of others will see moral judgement as a result of quick emotions. Favouring one view is ignoring diversity of moral situations people encounter. The disagreement stems from divergent assumptions on what constitutes ideal type situation of moral judgement in the first place. There are four examples of prototypical moral situations: moral reactions, moral dilemmas, moral weakness, moral fortitude. A virtuous individual is based on four archetypes each corresponding to a different prototypical situation: sheriff, philosopher, monk, wrestler. Short history of emotion and reason in moral judgement:
