Syllabus: Emotional Intelligence-Concepts, and their Utilities and Application in Administration and Governance.
6. Can emotions supply reasons for moral judgment? Analyze (10M)
Why the question?
The growing realization of the link between emotions and moral judgments
Structure of the answer
Introduction
Briefly define the term moral judgment and emotions in the introduction.
Body
- Highlight how emotions in an individual can lead to moral judgments. Ex: Religious emotions in M Gandhi served as a beacon for his moral actions during the independence movement (Message of love and selfless service as propounded in Bhagavad Gita)
- Quote more such examples for this dimension.
- Highlight how emotions might not readily serve reasons for moral judgments all the time. Ex: Negative emotions like anger could affect the person’s ability to be moral (Duryodhana’s anger and jealousy against the Pandavas culminated into a devastating war)
- Quote more such examples for this dimension.
Conclusion
Suggest a way forward to deal with the negative emotions to prevent them from hampering our ability to be moral. You can use the teachings of any philosopher or leader to justify your suggestions.
