关键词: 道德困境, 道德直觉, 情绪, 模块近视假说

Abstract: Many studies have shown that moral intuitions people to make deontological judgments. However, moral intuition is dominated by emotional factors and is therefore highly subjective. Moral intuition is highly sensitive to intentional harm through the use of personal power, but ignores harm caused by non-personal force or by side effect. The modular myopia hypothesis holds that the human brain contains a cognitive subsystem (module) that monitors an individual’s planned behavior and issues emotional alerts when the individual intends to harm others. However, this system is “myopic” and cannot identify harmful side effect. That is, the system’s review mechanism is a simple “single-channel”process that cannot monitor multiple causal chains simultaneously. The subjectivity of moral intuition suggests that in the face of moral disputes in real life, we should not just rely on intuition as the basis for action.

Key words: moral dilemma, moral intuition, emotions, modular myopia hypothesis