Moral Reasoning Act

A Moral Reasoning Act is a reasoning act that is an instance of a reasoning task (that produces a moral argument).

• AKA: Ethical Inference Act.
• Context:
  • It can precede in a Moral Act.
  • It can range from being a Utilitarian Moral Reasoning Act, to being a Duty-based Moral Reasoning Act, to being ...
• Example(s):
  • Choice X is immoral because of A.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Economic Reasoning Act.
  • a Algorithm Analysis Act.
• See: Utilitarian Act.

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References

2000

• (Zarinpoush et al., 2000) ⇒ Fataneh Zarinpoush, Martin Cooper, and Stephanie Moylan. (2000). “The Effects of Happiness and Sadness on Moral Reasoning.” In: Journal of Moral Education 29, no. 4
  • QUOTE: … To extend the study to other moral issues, a further relevant question is whether mood effects can be observed in a moral reasoning task when the task is more socially disturbing. This matter is addressed in our final experiment.

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