moral judgments
Right-wrong assessments made
Moral judgments are evaluations of actions, people, or situations as right or wrong, good or evil.
They differ from aesthetic or practical judgments by invoking ethical standards rather than taste or effectiveness: Lying to protect someone's feelings invites moral judgment.
The term often appears in debates about whether such judgments are objective truths or personal opinions.
To pass moral judgment is to pronounce on another's ethics, sometimes with connotations of self-righteousness.
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- right and wrongEthical distinction
- utilitarianismGreatest-happiness moral theory
- normsExpected behavioral standards
- social normsShared behavioral expectations
deontology · empathy · intuition · gut feeling · indignation · shame · culture · relativism · ethical dilemma · legal decisions · compassion · consequentialism · cognitive dissonance · slippery slope · guilt · medical ethics · anger · casting stones
- ethicsdeontology, dignity, sanctity of life, utilitarianism, consequentialism
- Ethics Termsmeta-ethics, casuistry, teleology, utilitarianism, ethical theory
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Formal comparisons of advantages versus disadvantages
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Refraining from evaluation
suspension of judgment · amorality · radical acceptance · moral relativism
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