The moral obligations of conflict and resistance

Killen, Melanie; Dahl, Audun

doi:10.1017/s0140525x19002401

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“…A well-intentioned effort to help another person might strengthen cooperation in one context, whereas an identical initiative might be rebuffed as a bothersome act of interference in another context (Oakley et al, 2011). Protests against social injustice can promote peaceful coexistence in some circumstances but increase societal conflict in other circumstances (Killen, 2016;Killen & Dahl, 2020). And who would know, prior to years of systematic research, whether a constitutional right to smoke weed or own a gun would be beneficial or detrimental to "peaceful coexistence"?…”

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What We Do When We Define Morality (and Why We Need to Do It)

Dahl

2023

Psychological Inquiry

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All psychological research on morality relies on definitions of morality. Yet the various definitions often go unstated. When unstated definitions diverge, theoretical disagreements become intractable, as theories that purport to explain "morality" actually talk about very different things. This article argues for the importance of defining morality and considers four common ways of doing so: The linguistic, the functionalist, the evaluating, and the normative.Each has encountered difficulties. To surmount those difficulties, I propose a technical, psychological, empirical, and distinctive definition of morality: obligatory concerns with others' welfare, rights, fairness, and justice, as well as the reasoning, judgment, emotions, and actions that spring from those concerns. By articulating workable definitions of morality, psychologists can communicate more clearly across paradigms, separate definitional from empirical disagreements, and jointly advance the field of moral psychology.

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What We Do When We Define Morality (and Why We Need to Do It)

Dahl

2023

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What We Do When We Define Morality (And Why We Need to Do It)

Dahl¹

2023

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All psychological research on morality relies on definitions of morality. Yet the various definitions often go unstated. When unstated definitions diverge, theoretical disagreements become intractable, as theories that purport to explain “morality” actually talk about very different things. This article argues for the importance of defining morality and considers four common ways of doing so: The linguistic, the functionalist, the evaluating, and the normative. Each has encountered difficulties. To surmount those difficulties, I propose a technical, psychological, empirical, and distinctive definition of morality: obligatory concerns with others’ welfare, rights, fairness, and justice, as well as the reasoning, judgment, emotions, and actions that spring from those concerns. By articulating workable definitions of morality, psychologists can communicate more clearly across paradigms, separate definitional from empirical disagreements, and jointly advance the field of moral psychology.

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The moral obligations of conflict and resistance

Cited by 2 publications

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What We Do When We Define Morality (and Why We Need to Do It)

What We Do When We Define Morality (and Why We Need to Do It)

What We Do When We Define Morality (And Why We Need to Do It)

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