Unsentimental Ethics: Towards a Content-Specific Account of the Moral-Conventional Distinction

Autor/inn/en	Royzman, Edward B.; Leeman, Robert F.; Baron, Jonathan
Titel	Unsentimental Ethics: Towards a Content-Specific Account of the Moral-Conventional Distinction
Quelle	In: Cognition, 112 (2009) 1, S.159-174 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2009.04.004
Schlagwörter	Norms; Value Judgment; Ethics; Moral Development; Moral Values; Theories; Cognitive Development; Emotional Response; Theses + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Normwert; Werturteil; Ethik; Moralische Entwicklung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Theory; Theorie; Kognitive Entwicklung; Emotionales Verhalten; These
Abstract	In this paper, we offer an overview and a critique of the existing theories of the moral-conventional distinction, with emphasis on Nichols's [Nichols, S. (2002). Norms with feeling: Towards a psychological account of moral judgment. "Cognition, 84", 221-236] neo-sentimentalist approach. After discussing some distinctive features of Nichols's (2002) thesis and situating it within the context of his predecessors' work [Blair, R. (1995). A cognitive developmental approach to morality: Investigating the psychopath. "Cognition, 57", 1-29; Turiel, E. (1983). "The development of social knowledge: Morality and convention". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press], we review a number of arguments and findings within the developmental literature that, collectively, pose a serious challenge to the proposition that emotion is indispensable for or plays a substantial contributory role in the construction of the moral domain. Furthermore, we report two studies whose results contravene those of Nichols's (2002) Experiments 1 and 2 (the empirical basis for his "norms with feelings" hypothesis), while favoring a version of Turiel's (1983) harm-based approach instead. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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