Moral relativism provides a compelling explanation of linguistic data involving ordinary moral expressions like ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. But it is a very radical view. Because relativism relativizes sentence truth to contexts of assessment it forces us to revise standard linguistic theory. If, however, no competing theory explains all of the evidence, perhaps it is time for a paradigm shift. Howeve...

Appeals to moral phenomenology—the phenomenology of moral experience—are common in moral philosophy, particularly in metaethical inquiry. But as far as we can tell, the topic of moral phenomenology has not typically been center stage—a focus of inquiry in ethics. And so, going back at least to the writings of G. E. Moore (and with some notable exceptions— see below), very little has been writte...

This article explores the forms of moral repair that the wrongdoer has to perform in an attempt to make amends for her past wrongdoing, with a focus on the issues of interpersonal moral repair; that is, what a wrongdoer can do to merit her victim‘s forgiveness and achieve reconciliation with her community. The article argues against the very general demands of atonement that amount to an obliga...

Humans express complex moral behaviour, from altruism to antisocial acts. The investigation of the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying our moral minds is of profound importance for understanding these behaviours. By reviewing recent findings in cognitive and moral neuroscience, along with other relevant areas of research, the current study aims to: (1) Investigate the neural correlates o...

Within the past decade, the field of moral psychology has begun to disentangle the mechanics behind moral judgments, revealing the vital role that emotions play in driving these processes. However, given the well-documented dissociation between attitudes and behaviors, we propose that an equally important issue is how emotions inform actual moral behavior – a question that has been relatively i...

The main ideas of Kant’s moral philosophy were embodied in what can be called the “Enlightenment Project”. calls for freedom, nti-paternalism and requirement abandonment concern behaviour are associated with ethical autonomy, categorical imperative, negative positive universality morality relation to human being as a rational actor etc. These consistent ideals following distinguished: 1) ideal ...

College education is an important stage for students to carry out their own development and progress. Therefore, in the college stage, it a very thing construction of teachers higher vocational colleges. Only when professional ethics can be better guaranteed, get Through query literature, based on this put forward certain plan, make our university progress, hope promote produce practical signif...

0191-8869/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.018 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 18438106828; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (G.L. Baril),wr Two measures of moral cognition were compared across three samples: Rest’s neo-Kohlbergian stages of moral developmental (DIT) and Graham and Haidt’s intuition-based Moral Foundations Theory (MFQ). I...