PSYCHOLOGY

Moral Rationalism and Empirical Rationalism

Moral Rationalism and Empirical Rationalism

The dispute between moral rationalism and empiricism has made a lot of value in the theory of knowledge. However, proponents of moral rationalism and empiricism is too exaggerated the value of one aspect of human cognition and thus underestimated the other. In order to obtain the knowledge needed and the concept of reason and sense experience. The confrontation between moral rationalism and empirical rationalism has largely overcome in his theory of knowledge Kant, who showed that in knowledge always requires the synthesis of the sensible and rational (Blair, 2005). According to Kant, experience, empirical rationalism gives material substance to our knowledge, and reason gives it shape. The content cannot be without form, and form without content.

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Moral Rationalism and Analogy

Moral rationalism is a view of Meta ethics which is called as ethic rationalism. Moral rationalism says that, in this moral, truths are predictable only by reason. Kant and Paltu have given many arguments and theories about moral rationalism. Moral Rationalism is opposed to the idea of faith as the only human being passive. They believed in human proactive (also called humanism) and the order of nature. The moral rationalism is called neo-stoicism, stating that the end of man is to follow the principles of morality and have helped ethics. Moral rationalism has some similarities to ideology and intention humanism and atheism, as it aims to provide a framework for social and philosophical speech outside of religious or supernatural beliefs (Joyce, 2002). Math analogy is a cognitive process of transforming information or meaning from numbers. Math analogy plays a crucial role in decision making, problem solving, creativity, memory.

Appealing to Kant and/or Kohlberg some rationalist thinks the lack of a lack of affective impudence on moral judgment and an appeal to universal moral principles are required for a correct theory of moral judgment because Moral rationalism is a philosophical doctrine stating that truth can best be discovered by reason and the actual analysis, rather than faith, dogma or doctrinal teaching. Rationalism states that we depend on our capacities to gain factual knowledge, which is inborn, independent and could not be determined by human beings

According to Plato, there exist two worlds: the real world and a supernatural realm which contains the eternal and precise Forms. Everything we get from the real world is a reflection of the supernatural hence the essence is invisible (Brink, 2009). Reason is the only way in which we get the essence of appearance. Based on Plato's metaphysics, Parmenides and Heraclites assert divergent opinions.

Criticism of moral rationalism

Moral sense theorists (or sentimental), as David Hume, are the key opponents of moral rationalism. Hume argues (among other things) that the mind, and emotions (or "passion" as he often calls them) are completely different skills, and the foundation of morality is a feeling, not reason. Hume takes it as a fact of human psychology and morality, that moral judgments are essentially emotional, sentimental, irrational or otherwise, or by reference to ...