18. Good moral judgments should be logical and a. justified by fallacies. b. proven beyond reasonable doubt. c. based on facts and acceptable moral principles. d. coincide with what most scientifically trained people think. a. the revision and modification of arguments. 19. Philosophical discussion of moral issues typically involves
The law is a completely adequate guide to the moral standards that we should follow. C. The law makes all immoral conduct illegal. d. Violating the law is always immoral.
Accepting a moral principle a. is a purely intellectual act like accepting a scientific hypothesis. b. generally involves a desire to follow that principle for its own sake. c. means you will never go against that principle. d. is a religiously based act of faith.
Philosophers agree that morality is based on the commands of God. c. "Groupthink" is a positive and necessary characteristic of all groups. d. Morality serves to restrain our purely self-interested desires so that we can all live together aspirations. a. constitute the whole of his or her morality.
20 Cards in this SetAccepting a moral principlegenerally involves a desire to follow that principle for its own sake.What criteria concerning moral judgments should we agree with?Moral standards typically concern behavior that can be of serious consequence to human welfare.18 more rows
The paper discusses four major features of moral judgments - Objectivity, Universality, Practicality and Autonomy – and argues that these features are the best defense of morality against the pervading pressure of radical relativism.
Rest developed his Four-Component Model by asking: “What must happen psychologically in order for moral behavior to take place?” He concluded that ethical action is the product of these psychological subprocesses: (1) moral sensitivity (recognition); (2) moral judgment or reasoning; (3) moral motivation; and (4) moral ...
Kohlberg identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning: preconventional, conventional, and postconventional. Each level has two sub-stages.
Moral judgment refers to a decision about what one should do in a morally problematic situation, what is right and what is wrong when deciding what to do.
To summarize, we find that moral judgments of unethical behavior are generally viewed as a legitimate means for maintaining group-beneficial norms of conduct. Those who use them are generally seen as moral and trustworthy, and individuals typically act more morally after communicating judgments of others.
Judgments of moral obligation often refer to the terms right and wrong. Judgments of moral value relate to persons, motives, intentions and traits of character. Here, one uses the terms good or bad, virtuous or vicious, saintly or despicable. Note that not all value judgments are moral judgments.
The criteria of adequacy for moral theories are (1) consistency with considered moral judgments, (2) consistency with our experience of the moral life, and (3) workability in real-life situations. Worldviews are composites of theories, including theories of morality.
This article offers a framework that distinguishes, theoretically and empirically, four classes of moral judgment: evaluations, norm judgments, moral wrongness judgments, and blame judgments. These judgments differ in their typical objects, the information they process, their speed, and their social functions.
Moral judgments refer to judgments that have moral content; they are used to evaluate situations, courses of action, persons, behavior, etc. The basis of moral judgments is a topic of some philosophical dispute. Some hold that moral judgments are based in intuition or feeling, often in connection with the emotions.
For example, a scenario in which a man has sex with a dead chicken and then cooks and eats it provokes negative moral judgments despite no clear harm being caused. Participants, when faced with such an evocative but harmless scenario, couldn't come up with a rational justification beyond “it's wrong”.
Intention is the object of moral judgement. It is intention including motive that determines the moral quality of an action. An action is right when the intention of the agent is good. An action is bad or wrong when the motive or the end and the means are good; an action is wrong if either of them is "bad.