Moral Reasoning Task
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A Moral Reasoning Task is a reasoning task that is required to produce a moral argument.
- AKA: Ethical Reasoning.
- Context:
- Input: Morally-Judgeable Choices.
- output: a Moral Argument.
- It can precede in a Moral Decision Task.
- It can range from being Utilitarian Moral Reasoning, Duty-based Moral Reasoning, to being ...
- It can be instantiated in a Moral Reasoning Act (to support a moral act).
- It can be studied by a Moral Reasoning Discipline.
- Example(s):
- “
Is moral choice X morally prudent given evidence E?.” - "A healthy mature adult should donate one of their kidneys because they sacrifice on average a few weeks of life to give a few years of life."
- …
- “
- Counter-Example(s):
- an Economic Reasoning Task, such as “
Is economic choice X economically prudent given evidence E?.” - a Algorithm Analysis Task.
- an Economic Reasoning Task, such as “
- See: Consequentialism, Ethical Relationship, Human Relationships, Moral Development, Descriptive Ethics.
References
2000
- (Zarinpoush et al., 2000) ⇒ Fataneh Zarinpoush, Martin Cooper, and Stephanie Moylan. (2000). “The Effects of Happiness and Sadness on Moral Reasoning.” In: Journal of Moral Education 29, no. 4
- QUOTE: … To extend the study to other moral issues, a further relevant question is whether mood effects can be observed in a moral reasoning task when the task is more socially disturbing. This matter is addressed in our final experiment.