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ARE REASON AND EMOTION EQUALLY NECESSARY IN JUSTIFYING MORAL DECISIONS?
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... ARE REASON AND EMOTION EQUALLY NECESSARY IN JUSTIFYING MORAL DECISIONS? A moral decision is a decision taken for the good of somebody but the term good is ambiguous here, good can be for the person taking the decision, for the society or for both. Thus, Human beings are endowed with two tools for justifying and making a moral decision, namely, reason and emotion. Both these ways of knowing which are used to make decisions have completely different points of view; while emotion is a subjective point of view, reason is completely objective. Reason is the justification given to satisfy the intellectual part of humans whereas emotions for justification are to satisfy the emotional part of the humans. Since making a moral decision is a cognitive process, it would be very tough for one to justify a rational decision in the absence of any of the two ways of knowing. An
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