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Are Reason and Emotion Equally Neccessary in Justifying Moral Decisions?


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Are Reason and Emotion Equally Neccessary in Justifying Moral Decisions?

... ToK - Emotion and Reason 3. Are reason and emotion equally necessary in justifying moral decisions? It can be argued that reason and emotion are equally important in the process of justifying moral decisions, for both bases of knowledge play an essential role when deciding between right and wrong. However, emotion may be considered more important in the sense that it often acts as the source of reason. For instance, an individual may reason that it is wrong to steal according to the law or the damaging consequences it may have on him as a criminal or on the person he or she plans to steal from as a victim. However, the individual's motives for stealing (for example enabling himself to provide for a starving family) are emotionally provoked and cause him to reason that stealing may be the right thing to do. In this case, emotion seems to be a destabilizing

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