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1、TheStatusofMoralEmotionsinConsequentialistMoralReasoningByRobertH.FrankCornellUniversityPresentedat“FreeEnterprise:ValuesinAction”GruterInstitute/JohnTempletonFoundation/UCLA-SloanResearchProgram4thWorkingConferenceatHarvardBusinessSchoolJune20-21,20062TheStatus
2、ofMoralEmotionsinConsequentialistMoralReasoningby1RobertH.FrankThephilosopherBernardWilliamsdescribesanexampleinwhichabotanistwandersintoavillageinthejunglewhereteninnocentpeopleareabouttobeshot.Heistoldthatnineofthemwillbesparedifhehimselfwillshootthetenth.What
3、shouldthebotanistdo?Althoughmostpeoplewouldprefertoseeonlyoneinnocentpersondieratherthanten,Williamsarguesthatkillingtheinnocentvillagerisnotbyanymeansthe2obviouslyrightthingforJimtodo.Andmostpeopleseemtoagree.Theforceoftheexampleisitsappealtoawidelysharedmorali
4、ntuition.Yetsomephilosopherscounterthatitisthepresumedvalidityofmoralintuitionsthatsuchexamplescallintoquestion(Singer,2002).Theseconsequentialistsinsistthatwhetheranactionismorallyrightdependsonlyonitsconsequences.Therightchoice,theyargue,isalwaystheonethatlead
5、stothebestoverallconsequences.Iwillarguethatconsequentialistsmakeapersuasivecasethatmoralintuitionsarebestignoredinatleastsomespecificcases.Butmanyconsequentialistsappeartotakethestrongerpositionthatmoralintuitionsshouldplaynoroleinmoralchoice.Iwillargueagainstt
6、hatpositiononthegroundsthatshouldappealtotheirwayofthinking.AsIwillattempttoexplain,ignoringmoralintuitionswouldleadtoundesirableconsequences.Mybroaderaimistoexpandtheconsequentialistframeworktotakeexplicitaccountofmoralsentiments.1HenriettaJohnsonLouisProfessor
7、ofManagementandProfessorofEconomics,JohnsonGraduateSchoolofManagement,CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY14853.2Williams,1973.3Consequentialistvs.DeontologicalMoralTheoriesConsequentialismdiffersfromtraditional,ordeontological,moraltheories,whichholdthattherightchoicemu
8、stbeidentifiedonthebasisofunderlyingmoralprinciples.Theseprinciplesmayspringfromreligioustradition(forexample,theTenCommandments)butneednot(forexample,Kant’scategoric