PHL244H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Intuitionism, Emotivism, Moral Reasoning
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The ego and the id mar 27th. Rationalist account: we make moral judgments consciously and deliberately, by applying general principles to particular situations. Emotivist account: we make moral judgments based on our emotional responses to particular situations. Deliberate rule-based reasoning play no (or little) role. All i"m doing when i"m saying that x is wrong is giving vent to these emotions that triggered these judgment. Justifications come after the emotion, they are after the fact. The most prominent historical defender of emotivist view was david hume (recall that he thought reason was the slave of the passions). Haidt considers his own view as a version of the emotivist view. He calls his view the social intuitionist model. There are two types of mental processing: one is fast, effortless, automatic and unconscious (tass, the other is slow controlled conscious, analytical and it takes a lot of effort and attention.
