INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy

Ethics are based not on reason, but on emotion

While talking about ethics' relation with the emotion, there has been a very huge amount of investigation of the particular topic. Historically the physiologists have given this particular area ample consideration in order to make this particular area more and more explored. The recent findings have proved that ethics find its roots in not only rationality but also in emotions.

We normally assume that rationality and being emotional are two different things. We are normally recommended to be rational at the time of taken decisions rather than emotional, but the fact is quite different. At time when we are emotional, we are simply rational as well.

Philosophers and psychologists have debated a long on the fact that relative roles at the time of ethical thinking of the abstract inference and emotional intuitions. This particular debate concentrate on the descriptive question which is regarding the fact that in what particular way people actually think how they are making ethical judgments and also the normative question of in what way they must be thinking. 

Another thing is that the emotions are not essentially for the moral judgments; they might also be greatly facilitative. Emotions are part of a motivational process that facilitates our deliberations, most importantly moral ones. In the final section I shall deal with the issue of faulty emotional information, i.e. how to distinguish between reliable and unreliable emotional informative.

As a matter of fact ethical judgments are seen to be highly emotional as well, in times when people actual express high level of approval or disapproval with respect to different acts.   There are so many factors which might be behind the emotional judgments; these are also able to make the emotional judgments flawed at times. This can be ...