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'Who Are We to Judge?': Pathologies of Moral Judgement |
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| Creator | Jiolito L. Benitez |
| Title | 'Who Are We to Judge?': Pathologies of Moral Judgement |
| Publisher | Mae Fah Luang University |
| Publication Year | 2565 |
| Journal Title | MFU Connexion: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Journal Vol. | 11 |
| Journal No. | 1 |
| Page no. | Article ID: 258088 |
| Keyword | Moral drift, Moral judgement, Moral responsibility, Pathologies |
| URL Website | https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/MFUconnexion |
| Website title | CONNEXION Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Abstract | Moral judgement plays a paramount role in society. But the moral drift that typically characterizes contemporary life has marginalized the function and legitimacy of moral judgement in the public sphere. There emerge in society certain pathological attitudes that afflict moral judgement. This study profiles the pathologies that afflict moral judgement. The profile is based on the interviews with respondents who experienced making moral judgements and being morally judged in public as well as conversations with social science and philosophy experts. The profile, which is consistent with the phenomenon of moral decline, consists of ten pathologies which misuse, distort and caricature moral judgment as acts of hypocrisy, interference, judgementalism, negativism, personal attack, moral perfectionism and superiority, sentimentalism and ambiguity and profanity. Those who exercise moral judgement are stereotyped as hypocrites, judgmental, negative, hostile, destructively critical, arrogant, self-righteous, and intolerant. The fear of being negative negatively stereotyped creates a culture of silence and moral indifference. Furthermore, these pathologies are used as a strategy to deny or escape moral responsibility; justify acts and structures of immorality; and marginalize the moral foundations of social life. The extreme repercussion of these pathologies is the anathematization of moral judgement so that it becomes a social pariah. As moral judgement becomes an outcast, morality is devalued in the public sphere. Hence, moral judgement must be severed from these pathologies in order to recover and retain its paramount role in society. |
