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GROUP 2

FEELINGS AND MORAL


DECISION-MAKING
Bermejo,Jenny
Carbonell,Anthony James
Cariño,Jan Jefferson
Carpio,Ryan
Castillo,Peter Parker
FEELINGS
An emotional reaction

Experrienced via physical as


well as mental states.
Moral Decision
Making

Having the ability to


decide which is the
right course of action
once we have spotted
the ethical issues
Feelings and intuitions or what we
call as "moral emotions" play a
major role in most of the ethical
decisions people make.

Decisions people make vary when


they are happy from when they
are sad or emotional.
Words that come out of our
mouth sometimes are also
affected by the emotions that we
feel. And so with our actions.

HAPPY

SAD

ANGRY
FEELINGS AS INSTINCTIVE AND TRAINED
RESPONSE TO MORAL DILEMMAS

Some ethicists believe that ethics


is also a matter of emotion.
Feelings are seen as also
necessary in ethical judgment as
they are even deemed by some as
instinctive a trained response to
moral dilemmas
TWO RELATED MODELS IN ETHICS
Ethical Subjectivism
It holds that the truth or falsity For example:

of ethical propositions is
Using Marijuana
dependent on the feelings,
attitudes, or standards of a Stealing
person or group of persons.
Bullying
It is based solely on FEELINGS!
TWO RELATED MODELS IN ETHICS
Emotivism Emotivists claim tat statements about
good or evil are just expressing a
It is a naïve version of ethical subject's approval or disapproval of a
subjectivism. This version says that particular thing. Emotivism has earned
a moral belief is true if it is held the nickname the "Boo-Yay Theory of
with sincerity and conviction. To Ethics."
say that an act is right, or a person
is good, is merely to emote, just to Example:
War on drugs
express emotions.
HOW THEY CAN HELP IN
MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS

INNER-DIRECTED NEGATIVE OUTER-DIRECTED NEGATIVE


EMOTIONS EMOTIONS
Outer-directed negative emotions,
Inner-directed negative on the other hand, aim to
emotions like guilt, discipline or punish. For example,
people often direct anger, disgust,
embarrassment, and shame or contempt at those who have
often motivate people to acted unethically. This discourages
act ethically. GOOD others from behaving the same
way.
Positive emotions like gratitude and admiration,
which people may feel when they see another
acting with compassion or kindness, can prompt
people to help others.
Feelings cannot be solely relied upon but reason
and feelings may complement each other.

Traditionally, ethical process has been understood


as an exclusively mental process; that our feelings
have cood decision nothing to do with matters of
right or wrong and good or bad, precisely because
our emotions are very unstable.
Reason and Impartiality as Minimum
Requirements for Morality

The minimum requirements of morality are reason


and impartiality. “Moral judgments must be
backed up by good reason and impartiality”.
“Morality requires the impartial consideration of
each
individual’s interests”. Moral judgments or resolving
a dilemma of moral judgments must be backed by
good reason.
Reason and impartiality refer to a mental activity following the basic principle of
consistency,
the lack of contradiction between one idea and another. It is a process of
deriving necessary conclusion
from premises, avoiding all forms of deception of fallacy of reasoning. It avoids
ad hominem, by not
attacking the personality of the opponent and instead directing one’s argument
against his idea.
Reason avoids ad misericordiam, appeal to pity, since appearing
miserable does not improve an
argument. Reason does not resort to ad verecunduam, appeal
to authority, one’s power and influence
cannot make a wrong right.

A logical, impartial, objective reason avoids ambiguities like


equivocation, circular reasoning,
amphibology, etc. Coherent reasoning is needed to
establish truth and meaningfulness of moral
judgments.
“Morality requires impartial consideration of each
individual’s interest”. In arriving at a sound
moral judgment you must listen to everyone
trying to speak. Biases and prejudices must
be placed between brackets, suspended.
Everyone’s message, silent or verbal, should be
allowed to be unveiled.

Everyone has always something to tell. No has a


monopoly of the truth. A moral subject must be
seen from various perspectives and standpoints.
Reason as a Minimum Requirement for Morality
Plays a critical role in moral judgment as it enables
individuals to evaluate the consequences of their actions
and make informed decisions.

Impartiality as a Minimum Requirement for Morality


It is also a critical component of moral judgment as it
ensures that moral decisions are based on a fair
assessment of the situation.
THANK YOU!
GROUP 2

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