The Morality of Dual Mode Camera: Catholic Theological Perspectives on Joshua Greene’s Dual Process Theory of Moral Judgements

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Result on the web

<a href="https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/teoxaveriana/article/view/35801/27326" target="_blank" >https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/teoxaveriana/article/view/35801/27326</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.tx72.mdmcct" target="_blank" >10.11144/javeriana.tx72.mdmcct</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Morality of Dual Mode Camera: Catholic Theological Perspectives on Joshua Greene’s Dual Process Theory of Moral Judgements

Original language description

Recent research on the neuronal background of human decision-making, carried out by Joshua Greene, challenges various parts of traditional Christian ethics: the Principle of Double Effect, deontology and virtue ethics.Although Greene’s experiments and positions have been reflected on in Protestant theological ethics, so far there has been virtually no response from the side of Catholic moral theology. In this article, it is argued that Greene’s experiments are compatible with Catholic moral tradition. They do not necessarily lead, on the one hand, to the subversion of either the Doctrine of Double Effect or deontological ethics. The means/side effect distinction, which is the essence of the Principle of Double Effect, may be evolutionarily conditioned, but this would only mean it is part of our nature.Similarly, the utilitarianism proposed by Greene is no more impartial than ‘intuitive’ deontological judgement. In fact, the utilitarian analysis is often expected to be as impartial as the free market, but free markets are not always as free as liberal economists would like us to believe. Greene’s research, on the other hand, can help us understand better certain parts of our Catholic tradition, especially the need for a preferential option for the poor and for seeking truth through dialogue.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theologica Xaveriana

ISSN

0120-3649

e-ISSN

2011-219X

Volume of the periodical

2022

Issue of the periodical within the volume

72

Country of publishing house

CO - COLOMBIA

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

1-25

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85132779970