The building blocks of moral judgment

This chapter discusses questions such as: What characteristics do different moral situations have in common? How do people recognize moral situations and identify regularities within them? What kind of categorization do we use when processing a moral judgment? What are these regularities? My assumption is that we deal with moral situations in the same way we deal with other objects or events. We categorize the situation as moral and then judge it according to which pre-existing representation it most closely resembles (Hahn & Ramscar, 2001). I present the formula A → C as representing the building blocks of all moral situations.