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How moral judgments arise, change, motivate, and interact with reasons. Psychological findings inform ethical inquiry without deciding the truth of every moral theory.
Which claim? Why only God? What reasons? Why better?
Framing questions from Does Morality Require Religion - Master.
Intuition, judgment, and social correction
- The Social Intuitionist Model of Moral Judgment — the intuition-first model, reasoning, and interpersonal influence.
- Jonathan Haidt's Moral Ddumbfounding Stories — cases of strong judgments with uncertain explanations; original filename retained.
- The Ethics of Autonomy, Community, and Divinity — three moral languages and the limits of descriptive pluralism.
- Intuition Is Evidence, Not a Verdict — a disciplined audit of first reactions.
- How Should Moral Judgment Combine Intuition, Reason, and Consequences - Argument Map — the competing proposals and a constrained synthesis.
Hume, the Stoics, and moral motivation
- Can a Feeling Be Wrong - Stoics vs Hume and Hutcheson — the disagreement over sentiment, rational assessment, and standards.
- Hume's Corrections of Sentiment - The General Point of View — situation, interest, fortune, and corrected judgment.
- Graver Audit - Correcting the Stoic Side of the Hume Comparison — the source audit and qualifications to the comparison.
- Hume, Stoicism, and Whether Reason Can Motivate Moral Action — reason, passions, practical knowledge, and modern evidence.
Human nature and self-interest
- Mandeville, Rand, and Hume - Self-Interest, Virtue, and the Sources of Morality — three accounts of interest, virtue, and moral evaluation.
- Human Nature — the existing comparative working note and its captured Hobbes/Locke section.
Cross-vault connections
The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt · Moral Psychology Does Not Settle Metaethics · 60.21 Psychology · The Psychology of Morality - Peterson Academy
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Notes in this topic
60.9.3.2 Ethics (file not included in this release)