RE: https://mastodon.social/@jlou/115970177564955152

@ArthurI what do you think of this resolution I came up with to the consequentialist judgement paradox you came up with?

#philosophy #ethics #Consequentialism #utilitarian #utilitarianism #consequentialist #deontology #deontological

Does studying economics turn students "into unscrupulous calculating machines"?

In "a sample of #Polish undergraduate students of #Economics (N=408) and #Sociology (N=123) ...we observed that the choices of more advanced #economists-to-be [we]re more #deontological (grounded in norms) than #utilitarian (grounded in benefits) [suggesting] that economic education does not...."

http://dx.doi.org/10.14254/2071-789X.2024/17-2/5

#ethics #moralPsychology #xPhi #higherEd

Most people are unaccustomed to considering moral issues, at all, in any sort of systematic, scientific, logical manner, but that is, after all, what the study of #Philosophy entails, and #Politics is merely "Applied #Morality", so the terms "deontology" and "teleology" are unfamiliar to them.

A #deontological morality determines rectitude by logical derivation from axioms and postulates, whereas a #teleological morality is one which determines rectitude by intentions or consequences.

#Emotion words were used less by #Spanish bilinguals that read and wrote about whether to sacrifice someone to save lives (on footbridge #trolleyProblem) in their #secondLanguage (#English).

Using their 2nd #language also led to more #utilitarian #moral decisions and arguments—an effect mediated by using (fewer) high-arousal words.

Support for #dualProcessTheory claims that #emotion can promote #deontological #ethical thinking?

https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221134193

#xPhi #DecisionScience #socialPsychology