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    Topic 4 - Feelings and Moral Decision Making

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    Feelings and emotions play a major role in ethical decision making. Decisions vary depending on one's mood, and words can be affected by emotions. Emotions can influence the nature and speed of decisions - anger may lead to impatience and rash choices, while excitement could result in quick decisions without considering implications. Ethical subjectivism holds that ethics depends on feelings, while emotivism views moral statements as expressions of approval or disapproval. Both are based on feelings. However, reason and feelings can complement each other in ethical decision making, as emotions like guilt or empathy can motivate ethical behavior.

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    Feelings and emotions play a major role in ethical decision making. Decisions vary depending on one's mood, and words can be affected by emotions. Emotions can influence the nature and speed of decisions - anger may lead to impatience and rash choices, while excitement could result in quick decisions without considering implications. Ethical subjectivism holds that ethics depends on feelings, while emotivism views moral statements as expressions of approval or disapproval. Both are based on feelings. However, reason and feelings can complement each other in ethical decision making, as emotions like guilt or empathy can motivate ethical behavior.

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    Feelings and emotions play a major role in ethical decision making. Decisions vary depending on one's mood, and words can be affected by emotions. Emotions can influence the nature and speed of decisions - anger may lead to impatience and rash choices, while excitement could result in quick decisions without considering implications. Ethical subjectivism holds that ethics depends on feelings, while emotivism views moral statements as expressions of approval or disapproval. Both are based on feelings. However, reason and feelings can complement each other in ethical decision making, as emotions like guilt or empathy can motivate ethical behavior.

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    Feelings and emotions play a major role in ethical decision making. Decisions vary depending on one's mood, and words can be affected by emotions. Emotions can influence the nature and speed of decisions - anger may lead to impatience and rash choices, while excitement could result in quick decisions without considering implications. Ethical subjectivism holds that ethics depends on feelings, while emotivism views moral statements as expressions of approval or disapproval. Both are based on feelings. However, reason and feelings can complement each other in ethical decision making, as emotions like guilt or empathy can motivate ethical behavior.

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    FEELINGS AND

    MORAL DECISION
    MAKING
    A lot of people may not be aware when
    their behavior diverts from ethical
    standards because their emotions and
    moods get the better part of them.
    • 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 from our mouth
    sometimes are also affected by the
    emotions that we feel.

    And so if our actions…


    Bo Sanchez, in his book,
    Heart Detox, expressed
    that there is a difference
    between experiencing the
    emotion and expressing
    the emotion.
    Emotions can affect not just the nature of the
    decision, but the speed at which you make it.
    Anger can lead to impatience, and rash decision-
    making. If you’re excited, you might make quick
    decisions without considering the implications, as
    you surf the wave of confidence, and optimism
    about the future.
    TWO RELATED MODELS IN
    ETHICS
    ETHICAL
    SUBJECTIVISM EMOTIVISM
    Ethical Subjectivism
    • It holds that the truth or falsity of ethical
    propositions is dependent on the feelings,
    attitudes, or standards of a person or group of
    persons.

    • It is based solely on Feelings.


    A homosexual from the parlor passes
    in front of a group of freshmen nearby and
    Lancelot one among the said group shouted
    "homosexuality is wrong". If Lancelot said
    this because he had been abused and
    molested by a homosexual when he was a
    Child, then he is biased. He only made that
    because of his feeling of anger.
    EMOTIVISM
    • It is a naïve version of ethical subjectivism.
    This version says that a moral belief is true if
    it is held with sincerity and conviction.

    • To say that an act is right, or a person is good


    is merely to emote, just to express emotions.
    EMOTIVISM
    • Emotivists claim that statements about good
    or evil are just expressing a subjects approval
    or disapproval of a particular thing.

    • Emotivism has earned the nickname the BOO-


    YAY Theory of Ethics.
    • Feelings cannot be solely relied upon but
    reason and feelings may complement each
    other.
    • Traditionally, ethical decision-making process
    has been understood as an exclusively mental
    process; that our feelings have nothing to do
    with matters of right or wrong and good or
    bad, precisely because our emotions are very
    unstable.
    • Although most existing researches emphasize
    the mental elements of decision-making, there
    are pieces of evidence to support the idea that
    emotion is also a necessary component leading
    to ethical decisions and ethical behavior.
    • The arousal of emotions influences moral
    reflection and ultimately moral behavior.
    • INNER DIRECTED NEGATIVE
    EMOTIONS – like guilt, embarrassment, and
    shame often motivate people to act ethically.

    • OUTER DIRECTED NEGATIVE


    EMOTIONS – the other hand, aim to
    discipline or punish. For example, people often
    direct anger, disgust, or contempt at those who
    have acted unethically.
    • POSITIVE EMOTIONS – like gratitude and
    admiration, which people may feel when they
    see someone acting with compassion or
    kindness, can prompt people to help others
    too.

    • Emotions evoked by suffering, such as


    sympathy and empathy, often lead people to
    act ethically toward others.
    So, while we may believe that our moral
    decisions are influenced most by our
    philosophy or religious values, in truth, our
    emotions play a significant role in our
    ethical decision-making.

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