The Five Primary Colours of Morality
January 16, 2008 · Filed Under Science and Technology
Steven Pinker has written an article that was published in the New York Times on the science and philosophy of morality. I have created a diagram below that I hope accurately summarises the key points of the article.
The steps involved in forming a moral reaction to a given scenario.
- Some scenario occurs and is observed or some scenario is imagined.
- The brain reacts to the scenario.
- The brain examines the scenario from five perspectives, with some more relevant to different scenarios than others.
- Each perspective is given weight and priority. They are then balanced against one another.
- The moralisation ‘switch’ is either turned on or remains off. If it is switched on, rationalisation follows. If it remains off, any non-moral thoughts will win out.
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