Sentences with phrase «one's moral intuitions»

Another way to study moral intuition is to look at brains that lack it.

But Greene argues that different cultures produce different kinds of moral intuition and different kinds of brains.

«Why would kids and adults from different contexts all have pretty much the same moral intuitions if it weren't some expression of a shared conscience or moral faculty that's natural, not something one learns exclusively at school or church or from some other external source?»

I disagree with positivists in that I would deny that a legal system is autonomous from human moral intuitions.

That is, if you can not trust your Spirit - led moral intuitions, you aren't morally free and must instead rely on something like the Law (e.g. 10 commandments).

For example, Buffy the Vampire Slayer dies and comes back from the dead not once but twice, and this heroine's story touches upon the same trope and informs the same moral intuitions and moral imagination in us.

For, according to classic Catholic understandings and the common moral intuitions of the American people, an America in which fewer and fewer abortions are performed each year is morally preferable to the present America, in which there are 1.6 million abortions annually, and rising.»

As a practical matter, most moral academic theorizing in the legal academy is done (in Posner's terminology) on the secular liberal side, and produces policy recommendations (as Posner likes to point out) that are often wildly impractical and unrelated to the actual moral intuitions of much of the population.

First, in these views nature has only instrumental value and this conflicts with the strong moral intuitions that we now hold from environmental ethics.

Arguments against utilitarianism by other secularists often proceed by showing that the doctrine yields conclusions contrary to our most deeply held moral intuitions.

On the one hand, he holds that the founding moral intuitions are self - evident.

The suggestion has been made on occasion in these pages that Americans are engaged in a Kulturkampf, a contest over the role of common American moral intuitions in contributing to fundamental understandings of what kind of society we wish to be.

Harned prefers to say that patience can sometimes be a vice and impatience a virtue, and perhaps that move has, at least, the virtue of sticking quite close to our ordinary moral intuitions.

The team found that automatic moral intuitions, as captured by the mathematical model, were reduced for people who rated higher on psychopathy and increased for people who tend to feel more guilt.

Cameron's laboratory is currently extending the tasks to understand moral intuitions and empathy for pain in clinical and incarcerated populations.

Yes, our decision to include these brides wasn't based on precedent, or text, or really anything other than our own Ivy - educated, coastal - elite moral intuition.

But ever since moral philosophy was invented, God has been invoked (and argued about) as the source of our human moral intuitions and the special regard we tend to imbue our own species with.

A good test of your moral intuitions is generally to put the shoe on the other foot.

Decipher what the correct view of morality ought to be and determine whether your moral intuitions are valid.

Scattered widely throughout the history of mankind there have been «somewhat exceptional elements in our conscious experience... which may roughly be classed together as religious and moral intuitions.»

However, it does not clash with my moral intuitions to believe that Fred Phelps (or Hitler for that matter) will be judged, humiliated and utterly destroyed so that he will be no more.

If morality does not come from god, then we'd be able to apply our moral intuition to the bible and parcel out which bits we find harmonious with the changing moral zeitgeist.

The only God that metaphysics can attain to has no religious value and presumably ought not to be called God, whereas the only Being who has a possible right to be called God can be reached only by religious and moral intuitions.

Right — Christians will have the same troubles as atheists have in trusting their moral intuitions if they don't really believe they actually have access to Spirit - led moral intuitions or they look at the people who claim to be led by the Spirit who obviously are not acting morally and take that as a warning to not trust those intuitions.

We both, along with most of our culture, have our moral intuitions informed by this very image and images like this.

is that these outward signs are indicative of a lack of faith in the Spirit (see Paul's letter to the Galatians), the Spirit that is informing the believer's moral intuitions and moral imagination.

Yet if good arguments can be made on behalf of both propositions, then by definition the moral intuitions can not be self - evident.

Bruce «the Spirit that is informing the believer's moral intuitions and moral imagination.»

It is also a reason that Christians can't trust their moral intuitions and moral imaginations, even though they are (allegedly) informed by the Spirit, because they — at the end of the day — believe the same thing and agree with you that you can't really tell the difference and if you were in Phelps» shoes that you would feel the Spirit told you to do what he's doing.

In Roe, the Supreme Court in effect affirmed this moral intuition by ruling that after determining «viability,» the community through its laws can exercise its interest in protecting life.

Thus it is quite conceivable that in the future the extraordinary deliverances of religious and moral intuitions will appear quite ordinary.

In that regard, the roots of our moral intuition are entwined with the self - interest shown by other animals.

«Tests can help quantify automatic empathy and moral intuitions.»

Crucial to this enterprise is an investigation of the decision rules that tie within - and between - group processes together, and how such rules are represented in the human mind as social norms, «gut feelings» or moral intuitions.