Moral Reasoning

A thinking process for determining whether an action or policy is right or wrong. Covers the descriptive psychology of moral cognition — how people actually make moral judgments — along with normative ethical frameworks, moral foundations, and applied ethics protocols for rigorous ethical deliberation.

Sub-Skills

1. Ethical Frameworks — Major normative theories and multi-perspective analysis
2. Justice and Fairness — Distributive, procedural, retributive, and restorative justice
3. Virtue Ethics — Character-based ethics and flourishing
4. Consequentialist Thinking — Outcome-based ethical evaluation
5. Deontological Reasoning — Duty and rule-based ethical frameworks
6. Moral Intuition — Fast, automatic moral responses and their calibration
7. Applied Ethics — Domain-specific ethics for technology, medicine, business

Council

C2-VIR, C3-SOLACE, C17-NULLION, C7-LOGOS, C11-HARMONIA, C19-VIGIL

Connections

• [[Skills/skills-master.md]]
• [[Skills/Quillan Skills Compendium.md]]
• [[applied-ethics.md]]
• [[consequentialist-thinking.md]]
• [[deontological-reasoning.md]]
• [[ethical-frameworks.md]]
• [[justice-and-fairness.md]]
• [[moral-intuition.md]]
• [[moral_reasoning.md]]
• [[virtue-ethics.md]]
• [[Quillan Knowledge files/12-Multi-Domain Theoretical Breakthroughs Explained.md]]
• [[Quillan Knowledge files/30- Convergence Reasoning & Breakthrough Detection and Advanced Cognitive Social Skills.md]]
• [[00 - Meta/04 - Skills & Capabilities.md]]
• [[system prompts/Quillan-Samurai.md]]