FEELINGS AND DECISIO

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MAKING
GEd 107 ETHICS
 HOW FEELINGS ARE
RELATED TO OUR DECISION-
MAKING?

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MORAL EXPERIENCE
MORAL EXPERIENCE
refers to the situations that people undergo, encounter and certainly,
what happens to an individual.

According to Hans-
Georg Gadamer, a ❑Firstsense- a moreexperiencedpersonin
German thinker the first senseof the word“experience”is
one who is knowledgeable about
particularsand has expansiveknowledge
aboutthings.

❑Second sense - an experienced person in

the second sense is one who is “taught and
corrected” and humbled by experience and
being aware of one’s own finitude and
limitations in the vastness of reality.

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 Human experience requires
understanding, interpretation, and
application,every experience can be
considered hermeneutical .
Every experience involves us
actively, individually, and personally
such thatevery human experience
touches base on who we truly are at
the core of our persons and so, is
consideredMoral
to have a moral whichan
experience is
dimension. experience of moral value , defines
us.
Moral experience action
is -oriented.

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 THE HUMAN
THE HUMAN ACTION
ACTION

Acts of man - one that is devoid of moral value.

Human acts – which is of moral value which is
considered conscious, rational, and free human bein

Primarily, human actions are those done by an

agent with knowledge or consciousness as
opposed to actions which are done with or out of
ignorance.
Secondarily, human actions are those which
involve freedom and are carried out voluntarily.
Human actions emanate from our decision, they involve responsibility on
our part.

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 ROLES OF EMOTIONS OR
FEELINGS IN DECISION-MAKING

AsGreenfield (2007)
puts it: “emotions are part of our
basic responses to meaningful situations
, and, as a result,
emotional responses cannot be isolated from our ability to
recognize a moral issue or dilemma and our willingness to
act”.

Emotions and thinking are complementary

, synergistic,
parallel processes, constantly blending and interacting as
a person functions
Neuroethics, “neuroscience of ethics which examines the
neurobiological basis of cognition and emotions in moral
reasoning.

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 FEELINGS IN
FEELINGS IN ETHICAL
ETHICAL
DECISION-MAKING
DECISION-MAKING
Regretis a product of wrong or bad decisions
and, normally, these kinds of decisions
are CHARACTIRIZES
CHARACTIRIZES A A
done haphazardly as dictated by upsurge of GOOD
GOOD MORAL
MORAL DECISION
DECISION
emotions.
Human agent must first conduct a
Emotions inform and guide our reason towardsrational deliberation to inform of hi
a particular decision
, emotional upsurges can or her moral judgement.
be so strong a force that it clouds our mind.
Give equal consideration to the
▪ For Kant, a person acts morally only interest of those who might be
when he acts out of dutyand such duty, once directly or indirectly affected by the
having passed the test of the principle of decision without privileging one’s
universalizability, becomes everyone’s duty. self.

The ultimate arbiter of morality is the human

reason acting in full autonomy.
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 THE MORAL REASONING

Three major steps involve in moral reasoning:

1.Identify the factsof the case.

2. Consultmoral principles.
3. Theapplication of the most appropriate moral
principles.
Seven-step-model of decision
-making:

1.Identify the factssurrounding the case.

2. Identifythe ethical issues involve
.
3. Consider the principlesthat have a bearing on
the case.
4. Identify theavailable alternatives
.
5. Comparethe alternatives with the principles.
6. Identify thepossible consequences .
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 REASONS WHY MORAL
COURAGE IS NECESSARY

❑ Moral deliberation results in knowledge of the moral situation and

of the most morally viable response to it.

❑ Freedom does not guarantee of an act

, the
stillagent needs to
intend act.

❑ It is one thing to know the right thing to do, and it

is another to actually
stand up and do exactly what one believes he
or she should.

❑ Moral deliberation is what we need to work on in us.

❑ People needs a great deal of openness

to experience so that we
can touch based on what makes thoroughly us.
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