DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Load, Social Intuitionism, The Control Group
Document Summary
Moral judgement moral judgments refer to judgments that have moral content; they are used to evaluate situations, courses of action, persons, behavior, etc. Moral foundations moral theory intended to explain the origins of and variation in human moral reasoning on the basis of innate, modular foundation. Moral reasoning is caused by quick moral intuitions. Differences in people"s moral concerns can be described in different dimensions: care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, sanctity/degradation. It now includes a sixth parameter: liberty/oppression. These dimensions are argued to group into two higher-order clusters: the person-focused individualizing cluster (care & fairness, the group-focused binding cluster (loyalty, authority &sanctity) Moral reasoning can be defined as being the process in which individuals try to determine the difference between what is right and what is wrong by using logic. Moral reasoning is a part of morality that occurs both within and between individuals. A moral choice can be a personal, economic or ethical one.
