The social character of moral reasoning

Behav Brain Sci. 2019 Sep 11:42:e149. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18002583.

Abstract

May provides a compelling case that reasoning is central to moral psychology. In practice, many morally significant decisions involve several moral agents whose actions are interdependent - and agents embedded in society. We suggest that social life and the rich patterns of reasoning that underpin it are ethical through and through.