FEELI

and
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MORAL
DECISION
MAKING
 L I N G
FE E Feeling is:

An emotional
S reaction.
Experienced via
physical as well as
mental states.
MORAL
DECISION
MAKING
having the ability to decide
which is the right course of
action once we have
spotted the ethical issues.
 Feelings and Institutions or what we
call as "moral emotions" play a major
role in most of the ethical decisions
people make.
Words that come out of
our mouth sometimes
are also affected by the
emotions that we feel.
And so with our
actions.
FEELINGS AS INSTINCTIVE AND
TRAINED RESPONSE TO MORAL
DILEMMAS
Some ethicists believe that
ethics is also a matter of
emotion. Feelings are seen as
also necessary in ethical
judgment as they are even
deemed by some as instinctive a
 MORAL
DILEMM
AS
 WHY FEELINGS
BECOMES AN
OBSTACLES TO
MAKING THE RIGHT
DECISION?
 ETHICAL SUBJECTIVISM
It holds that the truth
or falsity of ethical
proposition is
dependent on the
feelings, attitude or
standard of a person
 EMOTIVISM
Emotivism claim that statements about good
or evil are just expressing a subject's
approval or disapproval of a particular thing.

Emotivism has earned the nickname as the "

BOO-YAY" Theory of Ethics.
EMOTIVISM
 HOW FEELINGS
HELP US IN
MAKING THE
RIGHT DECISION?
 Inner-directed negative emotions like guilt,
embarrassment, and shame often motivate
people to act ethically.
Outer-directed negative emotions, on the other
hand, aim to discipline or punish. For example,
people often direct anger, disgust, or contempt
at those who have acted unethically. This
discourages others from behaving the same
way.
 feelings cannot be solely
relied upon but reason and
feelings may complement
each other.
THANKYOU
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