Morality

“morality is determined by sentiment. It defines virtue to be whatever mental action or quality gives to a spectator the pleasing sentiment of approbation; and vice the contrary” (Hume, 1777)


Disgust as Embodied Moral Judgment
(Schnall, Haidt, Clore & Jordan; 2008)


Disgust = irrational = moral judgement?

http://www.yourmorals.org/




"in confronting and embracing our own poverty, our own repulsion and disgust and disease – only then will we be at the starting point of reconcilation and redemption – only then will we subvert the relational holocaust, rather than perpetuate it"




(pic of St Francis of Assisi)