CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Empirical research by Jonathan Haidt and Joshua Greene seems to support the idea that in moral decision‐making under uncertainty, people follow their initial intuitions and ‘gut feelings’. Rational judgements are at most rationalizations or afterthoughts in our judgements about risks.

Detailed explanation-2: -Haidt suggests that the intuitions work like taste buds, so that each person finds that certain images of society and values just “taste” right, while others taste sour.

Detailed explanation-3: -What are moral intuitions? As I will understand the term, a moral intuition is a spontaneous moral judgement, typically about a particular problem, a particular act, or a particular agent, though there are intuitive apprehensions of moral rules and principles as well.

Detailed explanation-4: -For instance, we might have an intuition that all people are to be treated fairly, that it is wrong to intentionally harm an innocent person for no reason or that all people are to be treated with dignity. These are beliefs that moral intuitionists claim to be self-evident.

Detailed explanation-5: -Moral foundation theory argues that there are five basic moral foundations: (1) harm/care, (2) fairness/reciprocity, (3) ingroup/loyalty, (4) authority/respect, and (5) purity/sanctity.