PHIL 1550 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Kantianism, Thought Experiment, Prefrontal Cortex
24 Oct 2016
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For example, you are more likely to do less moral things when there is an authority figure around: the trolley case a thought experiment. You can pull a switch to kill one person instead of 5. The footbridge case the person is on a footbridge next to a person. If you throw that person on the tracks it will save 5 people. People look at the trolley case as a moral case. The footbridge has more of an emotional part to it because you need to physically touch the person that gets killed. There is something different happening in the footbridge problem. Utilitarian reasoning is used in the trolley problem. There is high brain activity in the prefrontal cortex than in the amygdala. Therefore, there is less emotional logic and more utilitarian calculation views because they and help people because they are more emotional unstable and react more selfishly. We develop moral foundations as we get older (haidt).
