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Why Common Sense Will Not Take Us Far When Making a Better World

In English

Författare

  • Arvid Erlandsson

Summary, in English

In this article it is argued that common sense morality in many cases leads to suboptimal consequences and that human beings in general put too much faith in their moral intuitions. In the first section an explanation of common sense moral is offered. In the second section a working definition of “better world” is presented. In section three, contemporary psychological research concerning human moral thinking is reviewed. In section four the article turns philosophical and discusses possible normative implications of these psychological findings. In section five, some overemphasized areas as well as some neglected areas of common sense morality are presented. In section six, an important distinction between the concepts bad, wrong and blameworthy is explained. Finally, some practical suggestions how to improve human moral thinking are offered.

Publiceringsår

2011

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

59-68

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Educational Studies/ Kyoiku Kenkyu

Volym

53

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

International Christian University Publications 1-A

Ämne

  • Psychology

Nyckelord

  • moral intuitions
  • Common sense morality
  • moral psychology
  • consequentialism

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0452-3318