PBH310: Moral Psychology & Abortion

more concise intro

• “In psychology our goal is descriptive. We want to discover how the moral mind actually works, not how it ought to work” (p. 141)

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

• Moral reasoning is often the servant of moral emotions. Gut feelings can sometimes drive moral reasoning. Moral reasoning is sometimes a post hoc fabrication.
  • 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?

Stop at 2:02

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

There's more to morality than harm and fairness.¹⁾

From YourMorals.org:

1. Care: Concerns regarding care and protecting individuals from harm
2. Equality: Equality is a psychological motive for balanced reciprocity, equal treatment, equal say, and equal outcome
3. Loyalty: Concerns regarding loyalty to others, self-sacrifice, and patriotism
4. Authority: Concerns regarding respect to authority and rejection of insubordination
5. Purity: Concerns regarding maintaining purity and preventing degradation
6. Proportionality: Proportionality is a psychological motive for rewards and punishments to be proportionate to merit and deservingness and benefits to be calibrated to the amount of contribution

Morality binds and blinds.