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How can you say that what you experience is a moral experience?
We define moral experience as “Encompassing a person’s sense that values that he or she deem important are being realised or thwarted in everyday life. This includes a person’s interpretations of a lived encounter, or a set of lived encounters, that fall on spectrums of right-wrong, good-bad or just-unjust”.
What makes a rule a moral rule?
Moral rules or principles differ from normative ones of other kinds (such as rules or principles of law, etiquette, or clubs) in that moral rules or principles indicate what agents morally ought to do or are morally allowed to do, or what deserves moral praise and admiration.
Why Rules What are rules for?
When used appropriately, rules provide a sense of predictability and consistency for children, thereby promoting physical and emotional safety. Rules help guide actions toward desired results.
What is meant by moral development?
Moral development refers to the process whereby people form a progressive sense of what is right and wrong, proper and improper.
What are moral rules and principles in ethics?
MORAL RULES AND PRINCIPLES. Moral rules or principles differ from normative ones of other kinds (such as rules or principles of law, etiquette, or clubs) in that moral rules or principles indicate what agents morally ought to do or are morally allowed to do, or what deserves moral praise and admiration.
What is a moral experience?
Moral experiences occur when you have direct experience of the consequences of yours or someone else’s actions and infer this to consequences in future on yourself and/or on the wider world.
How does law reflect morals?
The Ten Commandments rule that adultery should not be committed, and most people would agree, but there is no law in the UK against committing adultery anymore. Another way in which law reflects morals is the law on euthanasia. A lot of people believe euthanasia is wrong, as everyone has a right to live.
What is a moral rule to be especially kind to your parents?
A moral rule might be: “Be especially kind to your parents.” A more general and stringent principle might be: “Be especially kind to your benefactors.” In a case where a parent has not been a benefactor, for example, a father who always ignores the plight of his offspring, the rule “Be especially kind to your parents” might fade to nothing.