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When it came to moral "reasoning," we like to think our views on right and wrong are rational, but ultimately they are grounded
When it came to moral "reasoning," we like to think our views on right and wrong are rational, but ultimately they are grounded
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2015-06-24
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When it came to moral "reasoning," we like to think our views on right and wrong are rational, but ultimately they are grounded in emotion. Philosophers have argued over this claim for a quarter of a millennium without resolution. Time’s up! Now scientists armed with brain scanners are stepping in to settle the matter. Though reason can shape moral judgment, emotion is often decisive.
Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene does brain scans of people as they ponder the so-called trolley problem. Suppose a trolley is rolling down the track toward five people who will die unless you pull a lever that diverts it onto another track—where, unfortunately, lies one person who will die instead. An easy call, most people say: minimizing the loss of life—a "utilitarian" goal, as philosophers put it—is the right thing to do.
But suppose the only way to save the five people is to push someone else onto the track—a bystander whose body will bring the trolley to a halt before it hits the others. It’s still a one-for-five swap, and you still initiate the action that dooms the one—but now you are more directly involved; most peoplesay it would be wrong to do this deal.Why? According toGreene’s brain scans,the second scenario more thoroughly excites parts of the brain linked to emotion than does the lever-pulling scenario. Apparently the intuitive aversion to giving someone a deadly push is stronger than the aversion to a deadly lever pull.
Further studies suggest that in both cases the emotional aversion competes for control with more rational parts of the brain. In the second scenario the emotions are usually strong enough to win. And when they lose, it is only after a tough wrestling match. The few people who approve of pushing an innocent man onto the tracks take longer to reach their decision. So too with people who approve of smothering a crying baby rather than catching the attention of enemy troops who would then kill the baby along with other innocents.
Princeton philosopher Peter Singer argues that we should re-examine our moral intuitions and ask whether that logic merits respect in the first place. Why obey moral impulses that evolved to serve the "selfish gene"—such as sympathy that moves toward kin and friends? Why not worry more about people an ocean away whose suffering we could cheaply alleviate? Isn’t it better to save 10 starving African babies than to keep your 90-year-old father on life support? Singer’s radically utilitarian brand of moral philosophy has its work cut out for it. In the absence of arduous cranial wrestling matches, reason may indeed be "slave of the passions."
Peter Singer seems to suggest that
选项
A、we should cast away our logic and respect emotion in the first place.
B、we should not only concern about ourselves but start help each other.
C、people who live in abundance should give a hand to those in poverty.
D、we should cut off life support for the old to achieve the utilitarian goals.
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。根据Peter Singer定位到第五段。彼得.辛格提出的一连串反问强调了处于强势地位的人们因注意在做道德判断时不被情感奴役。避免私心,从而能够帮助更多的弱势群体,故选C项。文中指出的是我们应该重新审视我们的道德直觉,并自问逻辑是否值得重视,并不能就此得出“我们应该摒弃逻辑,让感性先行”,A项与事实不符;B项中的“相互帮助”表述不够准确;该段中只是提到相比较花大代价维持90岁高龄的老父的生命,也许救助10个挨饿的非洲儿童更值得,但并不能就此推断我们就应该切断老人的生命线,D项推断过度。
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