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Moral Blindness and Moral Responsibility: What can we learn from Rhoda Penmark?
Author(s) -
CALHOUN LAURIE
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5930.1996.tb00148.x
Subject(s) - morality , rationality , epistemology , function (biology) , blindness , moral responsibility , moral disengagement , psychology , point (geometry) , internalism and externalism , social cognitive theory of morality , moral psychology , social psychology , sociology , philosophy , medicine , geometry , mathematics , evolutionary biology , optometry , biology
The cases devised by moral philosophers are often abstract and sterile to the point of precluding the most important function of emotion in our dealings with real people in real situations. Far from thinking that morality is exclusively a matter of rational assessment of the morally relevant features of a situation, I believe that rationality has little if anything to do with moral conduct, and I hope to illustrate this through a consideration of what precisely is amiss with Miss Penmark of The Bad Seed. [1]