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    Moral experience involves one's moral consciousness being engaged as they are called to make a moral response. It puts one's sense of right and wrong to work as they experience and respond to moral situations. Moral experience is an experience of moral value, such as what is good or bad, right or wrong. Through ongoing moral experiences, one's choices start to define who they become as a person. Moral experience is a continuous process, as consistently choosing good or honesty is what makes one become truly good or honest over time through facing complex moral dilemmas. Moral experience also brings in one's moral ideals of what constitutes a worthy human life.

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    Moral experience involves one's moral consciousness being engaged as they are called to make a moral response. It puts one's sense of right and wrong to work as they experience and respond to moral situations. Moral experience is an experience of moral value, such as what is good or bad, right or wrong. Through ongoing moral experiences, one's choices start to define who they become as a person. Moral experience is a continuous process, as consistently choosing good or honesty is what makes one become truly good or honest over time through facing complex moral dilemmas. Moral experience also brings in one's moral ideals of what constitutes a worthy human life.

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    Moral experience involves one's moral consciousness being engaged as they are called to make a moral response. It puts one's sense of right and wrong to work as they experience and respond to moral situations. Moral experience is an experience of moral value, such as what is good or bad, right or wrong. Through ongoing moral experiences, one's choices start to define who they become as a person. Moral experience is a continuous process, as consistently choosing good or honesty is what makes one become truly good or honest over time through facing complex moral dilemmas. Moral experience also brings in one's moral ideals of what constitutes a worthy human life.

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    Essentially, moral experience is an experience of moral value such that one’s moral consciousness

    comes to work as one is called “to [make a] moral response” (van Tongeren, p. 204). Let me
    highlight the key points presented in this definition.

    First, our moral experience puts our moral consciousness to work. Whether it’s the arousal of
    moral consciousness that results in the occurrence of moral experience or the reverse, is hardly the
    point at issue here. In a moral experience, one’s sense of right and wrong or the so-called moral
    consciousness comes to play. Whatever factors or conditioning variables may have helped develop
    or shape it, such moral sense frames our ways of viewing and responding to moral situations and
    eventually, our moral decisions.

    Second, moral experience is an experience of moral value. Moral value refers to the quality of
    something being good or bad, right or wrong, and just or unjust. It differs from other types of values
    because it demands for a response, it involves moral responsibility, and it defines both the action
    and the human agent. Accordingly, De Finance (1991, p. 69) highlights the role of moral value in the
    sphere of human existence because for him moral value is the only value which alone “‘measures’
    the human action as human and through it the person as person.” He further said that “moral value
    affects [one] at the center of his [or her] being as a person” (p.85).

    Third, as mentioned, moral experience which is an experience of moral value, defines us. Either


    we are drawn towards an action because of the good that we sense in it or we sense the good
    because of our own value or that “goodness” that is in us. Whichever is the case, in the process and
    as a result, our choice becomes us. For instance, as generally experienced, we are inclined to think
    that possession of wealth makes a person wealthy; of beauty makes a person beautiful; and of
    intelligence makes a person intelligent. But being wealthy, beautiful and/or intelligent does not define
    one’s person in the way being a liar or a murderer does. We cannot say, Ann is beautiful, intelligent
    and rich therefore she is a good person; but we can say, Ann is honest, truthful and kind, hence, she
    is a good person.

    Fourth, moral experience is not a one-time but is an ongoing, continuous process. It can be said
    that by choosing the good, we become good. By choosing to tell the truth, one becomes honest in so
    far as that particular instance is concerned. But honesty exhibited once does not make one honest
    for to be such, one has to consistently choose to be honest. It may sound straightforward and
    formulaic but actual moral experience can be far more complex than hypothetical situations we play
    in our heads. Hence, becoming good, as the word “becoming” itself connotes, involves a constant
    struggle. Every experience demands thinking and decision-making and there can be no universal
    formula to solve every moral dilemma. Hence, every moral situation calls for our rational deliberation
    and affirmation of our humanity.

    Fifth, moral experience touches on and brings in one’s moral ideals. Our moral ideals pertain to
    what are believed to constitute a life that is worthy of humans which are products of generations of
    shaping via our tradition and which come to the fore as summoned by experience. Van Tongeren
    (1994, p. 204) states:

    Moral experience [happens when we are] being addressed by something or someone in such a way
    that, by inherent authority, we are summoned or obliged to commit ourselves to, or continue in a
    certain way of acting or relating, or praxis, which is at the same time understood as being part of real
    or good human life.

    Source: https://philonotes.com/index.php/what-is-moral-experience/

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