Minimum Requirements of Morality Reason and Impartiality

• reason and impartiality - are the minimum requirements of morality.
• Impartiality - is often associated with fairness, unbiased, just, and equal treatments.
• Impartiality - is the principle of justice that require decisions to be based on an objective criteria that does not discriminate nor benefit a type of person over another.
• The 7-Step Moral Reasoning Model

  1. State the problem
  2. Check facts
  3. Identify relevant factors
  4. Develop a list of options
  5. Test options
  6. Make a choice based on steps 1-5
  7. Review Steps 1-6
• The impartiality thesis - implies that when we are making moral decision (e.g., about how to allocate goods and resources), we ought not to give any special weight to or own desires and interests; instead of giving preferential treatment to ourselves, or to members of our own particular social group.
• Reason - is the capacity to see the interconnectedness of things.
• Impartiality - is detaching oneself from bias.