FEELING AS A

MODIFIER OF
MORAL DECISION
MAKING
Prepared by:
HILDA A. DAGYO
 Learning outcomes:

 Explain the role of feelings in

decision making;

 Evaluate feelings as both

obstacles and useful to
making right decisions.
INTRODUCTION:
This lesson explores-
 the role of feelings in moral
decision making.
 Kinds of feelings
 Types of moral decision making
 Related theories
One sticker
in a truck
says,
“ If it feels
good, do it!”
 FEELINGS
 Are emotional states or
reactions, experiences
of physical sensation.
 Play a major role in
most of the ethical
decisions people make.

 Decisions of people may vary when they are

happy from when they are sad or emotional.
 Bo Sanchez, in his book,
Heart Detox, expressed that
there is a difference between
experiencing the emotion and
expressing the emotion.

 He further stress that there

are no bad emotions, only bad
expressions of emotions.
NEVER REPLY when
you are ANGRY
NEVER MAKE A
PROMISE when you
are HAPPY
NEVER MAKE
DECISION when you
are SAD.
Moral Decision making
- Moral decision making- having the ability to
decide which is the right course of action to
take when faced with ethical issues.

A. RATIONAL DECISION MAKING

- Involves careful analysis of facts, options, and
potentials outcomes.

B. EMOTIONAL DECISION MAKING

- Influenced by feelings, intuitions and subjective
experiences.
 Bo Sanchez, in his book,
Heart Detox, expressed that
there is a difference between
experiencing the emotion and
expressing the emotion.

 He further stress that there

are no bad emotions, only bad
expressions of emotions.
 TWO RELATED MODELS

1. Ethical Subjectivism; and

2. 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
person.

It is based solely on FEELINGS.

Situation:
A homosexual from the parlor
passes in front of a group of
freshmen nearby and one among the
said group shouted “ homosexuality
is wrong” . If he said this because
he had been abused and molested
by a homosexual when he was a
child, then he is biased.
 Emotivism
This version says that a moral
belief is true if it is held with sincerity
and conviction.

They claim that statements about

good or evil are just expressing
subjects approval or disapproval of a
particular thing
 Feeling cannot be solely relied
upon but reason and feelings may
complement each other.

Traditionally, ethical decision-Making

process has been understood as
exclusively mental process; that our
feelings has nothing to do with matters of
right and wrong and goof or bad, precisely
because our emotions are very unstable
A. OUTER-DIRECTED NEGATIVE
EMOTIONS
1. Anger
2. Disgust
3. Contempt
 RUBRIC

GROUP
Content Organization of Idea
TOTAL
10 10

II
How do the following emotions
become obstacle or useful to making
right decisions?
A. INNER -DIRECTED NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
1. Guilt
2. embarrassment
3. Shame

B. POSITIVE EMOTIONS:
1. Gratitude
2. admiration
Cognition Feelings
Individual Activity:

REFLECTION:
Recall a moral decision you
made. Did you consider your
feelings? Did you end up doing the
right thing or the wrong thing? If you
ended up wrongly, why? Any lesson
learned?
Cognition Feelings