Teaser 1:

 “if it feels good, do it”.

 “I will never be able to forgive myself if I won’t fly home to be with my family
in my father’s death… if I don’t, I will not feel whole at all”.
 Reactions on the statements?
Feeling as a Modifier of Moral
Decision -Making

By May F. Olorga
 Teaser 2
 Feelings by Morris Albert
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrkVyXFsx6Y
 Feelings, nothing more than feelings
Trying to forget my feelings of love
Teardrops rolling down on my face
Trying to forget my feelings of love

 Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it

I wish I've never met you, girl
You'll never come again
Feelings, whoa, oh, oh, feelings
Whoa, oh, oh, feel it again in my arms


 Feelings, feelings like I've never lost you
And feelings like I've never have you again in my heart

[Chorus]
Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it
I wish I've never met you, girl
You'll never come again
 Reactions on the song?
Feelings

 Feeling is an emotional state or reaction

 90% of the decisions we made are based on emotions

 Feelings are instinctive and trained response to moral

dilemma
Feelings’ positive effects on decision-making
A totally emotional decision is
a. very fast;
b. reactive and
c. subconscious
d. useful when faced with immediate danger
e. provide a way of coding
f. enables final selection
g. drives people to directions conflicting with self- interest.
Feelings’ negative effects on decision-making
 1. quick decisions without knowing why; rational reasons to
justify a poor emotional decision;
 2. intensity of emotions can override rational decision-
making;
 3. Immediate and unrelated emotions can create mistakes,
biased judgments, and reckless actions
 4. can lead to errors.
Managing feelings

“Anyone can get angry---that is easy--- but to

do this to the right person, to the right extend, at
the right time with the right motive and the right
wy, that is for everyone , nor is it easy”.
Aristotle
Reason and Impartiality as Minimum
Requirements for Morality
 React to these arguments:

 “You didn’t even finish high school. How could you possibly know about
this?”

 “UFOs are not real, because the great Carl Sagan said so”.
 The minimum requirements of morality are reason and impartiality.

 Coherent reasoning is needed to establish truth and meaningfulness of

moral judgments.

 A logical, impartial, objective reason avoids ambiguities

Scott Rae’s 7 Steps of Moral Reasoning
 1.Gather the facts, information

 2. Determine the ethical issues, similar to “statement of the problem”

 3. Determine what virtues/principles have a bearing in the case.

 4. List the alternatives.

 5. Compare the alternative with the virtues

 6. Consider the consequences.

 7. Make a decision
Creative responsibility
 A creative response
 1. involves positive human action

 2. creates a response

 3. means to choose from among many possible fitting responses;

 4. individual must be in constant dialogue with the community

Difference Between Reason and Will

Vs.
Teaser videos

 Before You Decide: 3 Steps To Better Decision Making

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Jnmi2BkS8

 BLACK PEBBLES | Motivational Story about Decision Making

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh67rerIV6w
 Reactions on the videos?
 The moral person is endowed with an intellect and will.

 The will is what disposes what the intellect proposes.

 Will is intellect as external, for the purpose of possessing and making what it
knows.

 Intellect is will as immanent (inherent), for the purpose of understanding.

 The will is the faculty of the mind that is associated with decision –making.

An individual person is NOTHING unless he/she starts making decisions.

 The essence of being a person equals his/her bundle of decisions.

 Free will is the power of self-determination.

 The stuff of the free-will is a multi-dimensional power, energy or strength.

 One is free to the degree that is, physically free to the degree that he is
physically strong; materially or economically free to the degree that is
materially or economically strong.

 Will needs courage.

 This implies affirming, accepting oneself in spite of one’s defects,

 Strengthening of the will calls for courage which is self-affirmation inspite-of-

non-being (Paul Tillich)

 Purity of heart is to will one being. (S. Kierkegaard)

 The stuff of free will is a multidimensional matter (Hornedo)- physical,

economical, political, etc.

 It is autonomous energy.
Let us wrap it up.

 The Bird and the Whale — English (TheFableCottage.com)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU_0NF_jrgE
React on the video

 On courage;

 On reason;

 On will.
 Week 7 power point presentations prepared by:

 May F. Olorga
 Associate Professor 1V
 Basic Arts and Sciences Department
 TUPV