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PBH310: Moral Psychology & Abortion

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The Elephant and the Rider

  • Moral reasoning is often the servant of moral emotions. Gut feelings can sometimes drive moral reasoning. Moral reasoning is sometimes a post hoc fabrication.
    • FIXME Haidt has a great intuitist way of building Part I… but he does so addressing a secular, liberal audience… this would need to be approached differently to address a conservative, religious audience in an intuitionist way
      • Can I use moral dumbfounding examples for religious conservatives?

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FIXME the social intuitionist model (image/diagram) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_intuitionism#/media/File:SocialIntuitionistCC.jpg

The Six Taste Receptors

90 Percent Chimp and 10 Percent Bee