Deontological Moral Judgments

First, in this paper I will discuss normative ethics and how people go about making hard decisions. I will explain to you what consequentialism and deontology are. I will also explain how our emotions play a role in our decisions to make consequentialist moral judgements and deontological moral judgements. Next, I will discuss how our emotions influence our decisions. Greene believe that we should not trust our deontological moral judgements. I agree with Greene and I will give examples and reasoning behind why I also do not think we should make deontological moral judgements. Consequentialism says we should only focus on the consequences of our actions. According to consequentialism we should do what is morally right, but the consequences of our actions will determine whether it is righteous or unjustifiable (Gensler, 2011). On the other hand, deontology says that some actions are just wrong (e.g. murder) and it does not matter whether the consequences will be good or bad (Gensler, 2011). In a lecture video by Shaun Nichols, he uses the footbridge case as an example. In this example, there is a runaway train coming and will
As mentioned above, emotion and deontology go together. This is because our decision is constructed from our morals and what we think is morally right or wrong, rather than what the outcome of our action is. Greene discusses post hoc rationalization and why we make up reasons for something that is wrong when we have a feeling about something being wrong. In the example of the runway train, we think that it is wrong to push the man off the bridge. Greene argues that we should not trust that disposition because we are reasoning with our emotions. He does not think that we should use our intuitions because we are in a new complex world and our emotions are primitive and not correspondent. Therefore, we should not trust our deontological