Ever since Aristotle, moral philosophers, including David Hume, Adam Smith, and Edward Westermarck, have argued that there are two distinct layers to human morality: (1) moral emotions or sentiments and (2) the capacity for moral judgment and reasoning. We tend to focus on this first layer when we compare humans with other animals because it is closer to direct behavioural expression, hence eas...

Most recently, corporate financial scandals, and unethical behaviour cast doubt on investors raised public concern globally. It is due to the weak governance structure low ethic awareness amongst people. The purpose of this research therefore justify factors that influence an individual’s moral judgement. This study also seeks provide practical recommendations corporations different association...

The main objective of the study was to determine the effects of the Konstanz method of moral dilemma discussion (KMDD) on moral competence in the allied health students. The study employed the Moral Judgement Test (MJT) as the instrument to monitor the change of moral judgement. The test was translated from English into Thai and validated in 247 students in grade nine, grade twelve, and first a...

Ideas from cognitive science are increasingly in uential and provide insight into the nature of moral judgement. Three core ideas are discussed: modern schema theory, the frequency of automatic decision-making and implicit processes as the default mode of human information processing. The DeŽ ning Issues Test (DIT) measures the beginnings of moral understanding, which are largely non-verbal an...

Traditional studies on moral judgement used resolutions of moral dilemmas that were framed in terms of acceptability of the consequentialist action promoting a greater good, thus overlooking the deontological implications (choices cannot be justified by their consequences). Recently, some authors have suggested a parallelism between automatic, unreflective emotional responses and deontological ...