Open AccessProperty, Morality, and Moral Psychology
Author(s) -
Dave Fagundes
Publication year - 2015
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.37419/jpl.v2.i2.3
Subject(s) - morality , property (philosophy) , moral psychology , psychology , moral disengagement , moral development , social cognitive theory of morality , social psychology , moral reasoning , epistemology , sociology , environmental ethics , philosophy
My comments will proceed in two parts. In Part I, I will briefly describe and summarize the study of moral psychology, indicating how it might apply to property law. And in Part II, I will analyze Property and Social Morality through the lens of moral psychology, showing how Professor Gerhart’s project may be advanced through a richer understanding of the content of our ethical beliefs about property and the psychological mechanisms that give rise to them.