Moral progress: Recent developments

Sauer, Hanno; Blunden, Charlie; Eriksen, Cecilie; Rehren, Paul

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“…Moral progress is moral change for the better (e.g., Jamieson, 2002, p. 318;Sauer et al, 2021). This means that in order to understand the causal mechanisms of moral progress, we should try to understand the mechanisms of moral change.…”

Section: Social Learning Is Important For Moral Changementioning

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“…If so, then this would provide some reason to suspect that the people who make it through teacher training and become teachers will tend to have more liberal values than the average person, which may in turn skew the moral education curriculum in that direction. Many would consider the moral change resulting from such an education to be moral progress (e.g., Buchanan & Powell, 2018;Sauer et al, 2021).…”

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Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress

Rehren

Sauer

2022

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Many believe that moral education can cause moral progress. At first glance, this makes sense. A major goal of moral education is the improvement of the moral beliefs, values and behaviors of young people. Most would also consider all of these improvements to be important instances of moral progress. Moreover, moral education is a form of social learning, and there are good reasons to think that social learning processes shape episodes of progressive moral change. Despite this, we argue that instead of being a cause of moral change, the main effect of moral education is often to provide stability or continuity. In addition, we will argue that even when the conditions are right for moral education to contribute to moral change, it is far from clear that the resulting changes will always, or even most of the time, end up being progressive.

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Section: Social Learning Is Important For Moral Changementioning

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Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress

Rehren

Sauer

2022

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“…5. For overviews of contemporary discussions of moral progress, consult Musschenga and Meynen (2017) and Sauer, Blunden, Eriksen and Rehren (2021). 6.…”

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Introduction. Moral Change in Philosophy and Anthropology

Eriksen¹,

Hämäläinen²

2022

New Perspectives on Moral Change

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This chapter is from New Perspectives on Moral Change edited by Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800735972. It is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the ERC via Utrecht University. Not for resale. Based on research funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement n° 851043).This open access edition has been made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the ERC via Utrecht University.

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Knowledge Versus Understanding: What Drives Moral Progress?

Bodlović,

Kudlek

2024

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Moral progress is often modeled as an increase in moral knowledge and understanding, with achievements in moral reasoning seen as key drivers of progressive moral change. Contemporary discussion recognizes two (rival) accounts: knowledge-based and understanding-based theories of moral progress, with the latter recently contended as superior (Severini 2021). In this article, we challenge the alleged superiority of understanding-based accounts by conducting a comparative analysis of the theoretical advantages and disadvantages of both approaches. We assess them based on their potential to meet the following criteria: (i) moral progress must be possible despite evolutionary and epistemic constraints on moral reasoning; (ii) it should be epistemically achievable to ordinary moral agents; and (iii) it should be explainable via doxastic change. Our analysis suggests that both accounts are roughly equally plausible, but knowledge-based accounts are slightly less demanding and more effective at explaining doxastic change. Therefore, contrary to the prevailing view, we find knowledge-based accounts of moral progress more promising.

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Moral progress: Recent developments

Cited by 25 publications

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Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress

Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress

Introduction. Moral Change in Philosophy and Anthropology

Knowledge Versus Understanding: What Drives Moral Progress?

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