Moral Acts- Freely choice- good and evil- Develop list of options- dillema
deliberate Test options-
Must be premeditated or freely chosen - Harm test Must involve moral content - Publicity Guy thwaites 2017: - Defensibility - Devine command theory- God - Reversibility -Categorical Imperative- universal - Colleague - act of utilitarianism- most people - Organization The 3 integral parts of moral acts: - Virtue/professional - Circumstances Make choices based on step 1-5 - Object Review steps 1-6 - Intention If all is good it is moral act If atleast 1 or all are bad that is immoral Lauren Cassani Davis – “daily life is peppered by moral decision” JOSHUA D GREENE- Harvard prof research contains moral judgement and decision making
Rational thinking and Moral compasses
powered by fleeting forces
ethics is “concerned with making sense of
intuitions” about what is right and good
Emotions is never truly divorced from
decision making, even when it is channeled aside by an effort of the will.
Mary Midgley: Sensitivity requires
rationality to complete it, and vice versa. Moral sentiments came first; moral principles second.
Empathy- Conscience- guide, morally rght, believes Framing- point of view