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Етичен избор и морални чувства
Ethical Choice and Moral Feelings

Author(s): Emilia Marinova
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: moral emotion; basic emotion; moral dilemmas;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we will recall that the moral feelings determine moral choice not only through their affective characteristics but also by virtue of their ethical nature. The initial development of moral feelings is considered in the context of the development of emotionality with changed structure – emotionality which is based on cultural and moral signs. Moral feelings as carriers of ethical meanings lay the discussion about moral choice on ethical ground. Such formulation requires knowledge of the ethical significance, study of the moral conflict, search for the ethical guarantees in the choice of ethical decisions. The line of conduct and the ethical choice, which with no doubt have a psychological dimension, must be analyzed as an ethical fact. The overlay of psychological and ethical analysis in this case is not enough. We plead that the ethical perspective has a substantial place in this analysis and it can not be replaced by the analysis of rational trends.

  • Issue Year: XX/2011
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 63-73
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bulgarian