MORAL PRINCIPLES OF ADVOCACY

Moral Principles Are Not Moral Laws

Moral Emotions, Principles, and the Locus of Moral Perception

I vindicate the thrust of the particularist position in moral deliberation. to this purpose, I focus on some elements that seem to play a crucial role in first-person moral deliberation and argue that they cannot be incorporated into a more sophisticated system of moral principles. More specifically, I emphasize some peculiarities of moral perception in the light of which I defend the irreducib...

Moral dilemmas and moral principles: when emotion and cognition unite.

Traditional studies on moral judgement used resolutions of moral dilemmas that were framed in terms of acceptability of the consequentialist action promoting a greater good, thus overlooking the deontological implications (choices cannot be justified by their consequences). Recently, some authors have suggested a parallelism between automatic, unreflective emotional responses and deontological ...

The motivated use of moral principles

Five studies demonstrated that people selectively use general moral principles to rationalize preferred moral conclusions. In Studies 1a and 1b, college students and community respondents were presented with variations on a traditional moral scenario that asked whether it was permissible to sacrifice one innocent man in order to save a greater number of people. Political liberals, but not relat...

Moral mid-level principles in modeling

Modeling plays a substantial role in decision-making and therefore many models raise moral issues. Modelers, especially in operations research, become increasingly aware that this poses new problems to modeling. This paper addresses two questions: (1) How do moral issues in modeling arise? (2) How can these moral issues be resolved? In this article I trace the origins of moral issues in modelin...