moral reflection
Conscience examining itself
Moral reflection is the process of thinking carefully about right and wrong, especially regarding one's own actions or beliefs.
It involves examining motives, weighing consequences, and considering principles: After some moral reflection, she decided to return the extra change.
The phrase suggests deliberate, often private contemplation rather than snap judgment.
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- deliberationCareful weighing of choices
- weighing optionsConsidering alternatives carefully
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
accountability · remorse · discernment · gut check · empathy · norms · conscience · integrity · personal values · soul-searching · evaluation · fairness · self-discovery · ethical dilemma · doing the right thing · good and evil · guilt · self-awareness
- moral educationcharacter education, ethical values, character formation, character development, character building
- confessionsconfession, admission, true confession, deathbed confession, divulgence
- sentimentalismsensibility, sentiment, sentimentality, pathos, feeling
moral reflectionknee-jerk reaction
Instinctive, unconsidered response
snap judgment · gut reaction · hasty decision · shooting from the hip · spontaneous reaction
moral reflectionamorality
Lacking ethical concern
moral blindness · callousness · willful ignorance · turning a blind eye
moral reflectionblame-shifting
Attributing fault to others
rationalization · mindlessness · self-deception · unexamined life · denial