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Intuitive Ethics: How Innately Prepared Intuitions Generate
Culturally Variable Virtues
Edeline Brezinger Jonathan Garcia
Ken Yoshifku
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Video: Instinctive Ethics
Introduction: Approaches•Empiricist Approach
▫Cross-Cultural Similarities•Nativist Approach
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
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Introduction: Intuitions•Intuitions
▫Processing Systems Intuitive System Automatic System
▫Moral Intuitions
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Determining Common Moral Values•Meta-Physical Approach•Common Core of Moral Values
▫Suffering/Compassion▫Reciprocity/Fairness▫Hierarchy/Respect
•Evolved Cognitive Module▫Proper Domain▫Actual Domain
•Purity Module
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Virtue Theory•Virtues are Social Skills
▫Possessing Virtue▫Virtuous Person
•Virtue Theory’s Appeal•Virtue Acquisition
▫Patterns of Input and Response•Virtues as Prepared Cultural
Achievements
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Conclusion•Cultural Variation
▫Exploiting Modules to Elicit Behavior▫Relative Use of the Four Modules▫Culturally-Assigned Meaning of Virtues▫Complex Interactions Between Virtues
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Interesting Points▫1. Suggests psychology will link biology
and sociology on the topic of ethics▫2. Evolution Based Theory for Ethics/Virtue▫3. Suggests Three Core Cross Cultural
Morals
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Critical Review•Author Presents A Modified Nativist View
▫Not an Independent Study▫Based on a Review of Existing Literature▫Intuitions are the Author’s Suggested Key
to Uncovering Evolutionary Basis for Ethics/Virtues
▫Needs Support from Further Research
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Test QuestionsMULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The empiricist approach posits that:
A. Knowledge about such issues as fairness, harm, and respect for authority are built into the human mind by evolution
B. Moral knowledge, moral beliefs, moral action and all other stuff of morality are learned in childhood
C. Humans all have a common core of moral values, concerns, and issues that have to be discovered
D. None of the above
2. What are the twos distinct processing systems that the mind is composed of:
A. automatic system and controlled systemB. open system and repressed systemC. none of the aboveD. all of the above
3. The three evolved cognitive modules are:
A. proper, virtue, and moralB. fundamental, purity, and nativistC. actual, authoritative, and controlledD. proper, actual, and purity
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Test QuestionsTRUE/FALSE 1. A fundamental problem with many virtue
theories is that they assume that virtues are learned exclusively from environmental inputs.
2. Quick gut feelings that come into
consciousness as soon as a situation is presented to them represent the intuitive system.
3. Much of mature moral functioning is intuitive
rather than deliberative.Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately
prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues. Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.
Test Question Answers•Multiple Choice
▫1. B: Moral knowledge, moral beliefs, moral action and all other stuff of morality are learned in childhood
▫2. A: Automatic system and controlled system
▫3. D: Proper, actual, and purity
•True/False▫1. True▫2. True▫3. True
The End
Haidt, J., & Joseph, C. (2004). Intuitive Ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues.
Daedalus, 133, 55-66.