PHIL 1550 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ethical Egoism, Psychological Egoism, Moral Psychology
5 Dec 2018
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Ethics chapter 5 moral psychology and egoism. Moral psychology: a largely empirical field that particularly brings together ethical theory and human psychology to investigate moral phenomena. Decision frame: includes how a problem is presented and the entire context of the problem as the actor sees it: the choices, their consequences, and all surrounding influences. How a problem, along with its choices and consequences, are presented. The two problems (exactly the same except it is worded differently) on the number of people dying and the amount saved in the book. Emotional influences: subjects were set up to find money (worth a dollar at the time). They were then placed near a woman who dropped some papers. These subjects were twenty-two times more likely to help the woman than those who had not previously found any money. Noise and gender: these also seem to affect people"s helping behavior their willingness to help someone in need.
