Confucian Moral Thinking

A Genealogy of Early Confucian Moral Psychology

Running Head: RELIGIOSITY AND CONSEQUENTIALIST MORAL THINKING Religiosity, Political Orientation, and Consequentialist Moral Thinking

Religiosity and Consequentialist Moral Thinking 2 Three studies demonstrated that the moral judgments of religious individuals and political conservatives are highly insensitive to consequentialist (i.e., outcome-based) considerations. In Study 1, both religiosity and political conservatism predicted a resistance towards consequentialist thinking concerning a range of transgressive acts, indepe...

SEOK, Bongrae, Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013, xvi + 197 pages

How can Confucian philosophy provide a useful path toward understanding the basic processes of human moral psychology? This is the question that SEOK Bongrae’s new book Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy strives to answer. To the uninitiated, Confucian philosophy will be an unlikely resource, even an anachronism with respect to current issues in philosophy, especially with regar...

visual versus verbal Thinking and Dual‐Process Moral cognition

Moral judgments are not produced by a unified “moral faculty.” Instead, they are influenced by a combination of automatic emotional responses and controlled cognitive processes with distinctive cognitive profiles (Cushman, Young, & Hauser, 2006; Greene, Morelli, Lowenberg, Nystrom, & Cohen, 2008; Moore, Clark, & Kane, 2008; Paxton, Ungar, & Greene, 2011) and neural substrates (Greene, Sommervil...

Using Discourse Processing Methods To Study Moral Thinking

A 16-year-old gunslinger named "Doug," who performed nine drive-by shootings in his hometown of Omaha in 1 year, considers the films South Central and Boyz'n the Hood to be affirmations of his aspirations and lifestyle (Hull, 1993). In contrast, most viewers of these films absorbed explicit lessons about which behaviors and life choices to avoid. What are the factors that lead to these radicall...