"Psychoethics studies how such speech acts can impair ethical reasoning, judgment, decision-making, and moral emotions. It holds that the normative dimensions of emotional reasoning and ethical reasoning are intertwined, and many ethical problems are rooted in disturbances in emotional reasoning and/or its confusion with moral reasoning."
"People deduce self-destructive emotions and behavior from self-defeating speech acts embedded in their emotional reasoning, including demanding perfection, self-damning, 'can'tstipation,' catastrophizing, and world-revolves-around-me (WRAM) thinking. Hence, addressing the self-defeating speech acts clients perform in their emotional reasoning can help them function more effectively as moral agents."
"A client believed that she ought never to offend anyone by what she does or says. This categorical 'ought never' she deduced from a perfectionistic demand that, in all possible circumstances, she does nothing to harm anyone else. Thus, even though the client did not do anything unethical, she experienced intense guilt."
Psychoethics, based on Logic-Based Therapy, examines how self-defeating speech acts embedded in emotional reasoning impair ethical functioning. These speech acts include demanding perfection, self-damning, catastrophizing, and distorted thinking patterns. Psychoethics recognizes that normative dimensions of emotional and ethical reasoning are intertwined, with many ethical problems rooted in disturbances in emotional reasoning or confusion between emotional and moral reasoning. By identifying and addressing self-defeating speech acts, individuals can restore their capacity to function as effective moral agents. Perfectionistic demands, for example, can generate false moral obligations that cloud judgment despite no actual ethical breach occurring.
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