Rationalizing our Way into Moral Progress

Research suggests that the explicit reasoning we offer to ourselves and to others is often rationalization, that we act instead on instincts, inclinations, stereotypes, emotions, neurobiology, habits, reactions, evolutionary pressures, unexamined principles, or justifications other than the ones we...

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Main Author: Summers, Jesse S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2017]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-104
IxTheo Classification:NCA Ethics
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Psychological explanations
B Moral Progress
B Explanatory and justificatory reasons
B Rationalization
B Real reasons
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