• Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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• no.86
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• pp.61-85
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• 2009

이 논문의 목적은 장구성의 성선 개념이 호상학과 같이 선악을 초월해 있는 것이 아니라 선한 마음의 근거로서 내재되어있는 것임을 밝히는 데 있다. 기존연구자들에 의하면, 선악을 초월한 성의 의미는 도덕적 본성의 내재성을 부정하는 것이고, 이로 인해서 성이 외부조건에 따라서 선하게도 악하게도 될 수 있다는 것이다. 그리고 도덕적 본성의 실현은 성에 근거한 것이 아니라 심에 근거해서 이루어지는 것이다. 장구성은 고자의 성 개념을 비판함으로써 도덕적 본성의 내재성과 본성에 근거한 도덕적 실천을 논증해 나간다. 장구성의 성선 개념은 '성은 인의예지로서 내재된 도덕적 본성이다'라는 명제로 압축될 수 있다. 이 명제는 세 가지 조건을 내포하고 있다. 첫째, 성은 곧 인의예지이다. 둘째, 인의예지는 사단의 근거로서만 존재한다. 셋째, 사단은 그 근원인 도덕적 본성을 확인할 수 있는 단서이다. 첫 번째 조건은 '곧'이 '바로 그' 혹은 '나아가다' 중에 어떤 것으로 해석되느냐에 따라서 도덕적 본성의 내재성여부가 가려진다는 것이다. 전자의 의미라면, 성이 인의예지로서 내재된 도덕적 본성이다. 반면에 후자의 의미라면, 인의예지는 도덕적 실천이 이루어진 후에 명명되는 덕목이다. 두 번째 조건은 인의예지와 사단이 체용의 관계를 이루느냐의 여부를 묻는 것이다. 체용의 의미는 도덕적 본성[인의예지]에 근거해서만 드러나는 것이 선한 마음[사단]임을 나타내는 것이다. 세 번째 조건은 사단이 도덕적 본성을 확인하는 단서로 쓰였느냐의 여부를 묻는 것이다. 도덕적 본성이 내 마음에 내재되어있다면, 본성실현의 관건은 그 본성을 확인하는 데에 달려있다. 이때 선한 마음은 확충해서 완전하게 실현되어야 하는 것이 아니라 그 근원을 찾아가는 단서이다. 장구성은 이 세 가지 조건을 충족시킴으로써 맹자의 성선 개념이 도덕적 본성의 내재성임을 증명한다.

• Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.360-376
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• 2018

Nursing students experience ethical conflicts that lead to moral distress and moral sensitivity in clinical practice. Most nursing students have some difficulty in speaking up when faced with morally challenging situations. Hence, increasing moral courage of these students is important to improve the quality of practice, and carry out nursing responsibilities. However, research on the moral distress, moral sensitivity, and moral courage of nursing students has not been reported in South Korea. The purposes of this study were to (a) identify the levels of moral distress, moral sensitivity, and moral courage of nursing students and (b) examine the influence of moral distress and moral sensitivity on moral courage. Data were collected through a survey using self-reported questionnaires sent to senior nursing students at two nursing colleges in Seoul and Gyeonggido. A total of 138 senior nursing students participated in the survey. The data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS Statistics 23 program by Pearson's correlation coefficients and multiple regression analysis. The mean scores of the moral distress thermometer, moral distress, moral sensitivity, and moral courage were $3.53{\pm}2.18$, $57.33{\pm}43.35$, $134.98{\pm}13.98$, and $56.33{\pm}12.75$, respectively. The significant factors influencing moral courage were the moral distress thermometer and patient-centered nursing, which was a subcomponent of moral sensitivity. The explanatory power of the model was 5%. This study confirms that nursing students, like nurses, experience moral distress. It is therefore important to create organizational environments that support the moral courage of nursing students.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.121-132
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• 2016

Emotion is considered to be involved in the moral decision-making process consisting of moral judgment, moral intention, and moral behavior. This research investigated the distinct role of two specific moral emotions, guilt and shame, when they are suppressed, on moral judgment, moral intention, and moral behavior through an online experiment. Moral emotion (guilt vs. shame) as well as suppression of these emotions (suppressing vs. control) was manipulated to infer the causality of moral emotions and the moral decision-making process when they are suppressed. The results suggest that suppressing guilt was involved in moral judgment and moral intention, but was not involved in moral behavior. In particular, participants who maintained guilt evaluated moral vignettes as more moral and perceived that they would follow the behavior described in the vignettes than those participants who suppressed their guilt. On the other hand, our data showed that suppressing shame was not involved in moral judgment and intention but was in behavior. Participants who maintained shame engaged in moral behavior more than participants who suppressed shame. We delineate the different mechanisms between guilt and shame on the moral decision-making process with the discrete emotion theory.

• Journal of Korean Philosophical Society
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• no.93
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• pp.121-148
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• 2011

The uncodifiability thesis in anti-theory argument is the typical claim for the impossibility of ethical theorizing. Based on this thesis reflecting particularism strongly, contemporary anti-theorists in ethics argue that individual decisions in particular situations cannot be codified into moral principles. The uncodifiability thesis needs to be examined by the following two issues: a theoretical issue of whether the object of codification is moral practices or not; and a practical one of whether moral principles present the decision procedure of moral reasoning or not. The characteristics of practical reasoning show that the object of codification in ethics, as moral theorists insist, is not moral practices but morality itself. Also moral theorists, contrary to the criticisms of anti-theorists, insist that moral reasoning is comprised of not only moral principles but also moral judgments with contextual knowledge and moral wisdom. In brief, moral theorists make a persuasive response to the uncodifiability thesis when they do neither intend to codify moral practices into moral principles nor to deduce the moral reasoning from moral principles. For them moral judgments should be examined by the moral principles which present universal and idealistic morality.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.555-570
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• 2011

In order to do morally right behavior that we cognitively know, prosocial moral motivation is necessary. Previous studies revealed emotion is important for prosocial moral motivation. This was supported by cognitive neuroscience studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI) in which the activity of ventral striatum(VS) was observed when people made moral decision. VS was originally known as the core area of reward process but recently VS was found to respond also to social reward and even feeling of prosocial emotion itself. However it is not clear why VS was activated when people experience prosocial moral sentiments. The aims of this review article were to find situations in which people are prosocially and morally motivated and to understand more about the role of emotion as a moral motivator by examining evidence regarding the neural network, including VS, of prosocial moral motivation and moral decision-making.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.361-372
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of moral elevation and self control on the relationship between moral identity, character strengths, family strengths, and altruistic behavior in the times of convergence. The collected data were analyzed by SEM. The results of this study were as follows: First, moral self has indirect effect on altruistic behavior through moral elevation and self control in turn, and character strengths, have indirect effect on altruistic behavior through moral elevation and self control and moral elevation, self control in turn, and family strengths have indirect effect on altruistic behavior through self control. Second, it was found that there was a significant gender difference in the structural weights of character strengths and moral elevation.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.78-86
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• 2019

In the study, the moral sensitivity, moral distress, and biomedical ethics awareness levels of hospital nurses are examined, and the mediating effect of biomedical ethics awareness in the relationship between moral sensitivity and moral distress is verified. As the study subjects, 153 hospital nurses were selected from both university hospitals and general hospitals in S city and J city. Using the SPSS WIN 21.0 system, data analysis was conducted via t-tests, the Sheffe test, correlation analysis, multiple regression analyses, Sobel test. The average level of moral sensitivity experienced by the hospital nurses was 4.70(out of 7), moral distress was 62.80(out of 336), and biomedical ethics awareness was 2.21(out of 4). Moral distress had a static correlation with moral sensitivity and biochemical ethics awareness, and moral sensitivity had a static correlation with biomedical ethics awareness. Finally, biomedical ethics awareness showed a partial mediating effect in the relationship between moral sensitivity and moral distress. It is important to develop a biomedical ethics education program that can help hospital nurses to resolve moral issues, thereby improving moral sensitivity and diminishing their moral distress.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.149-160
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• 2021

Recently in the gaming market, immoral game behaviors such as flaming, trolling, and illegal program use have drawn attention as serious problems. With 209 gamers of , this study analyzed the effects of perception toward in-game rules, social identity, moral identity, and moral positioning with control of gender and gaming time. Results showed that moral identity and formal moral perception toward in-game rules had positive effects while moral positioning and social identity had negative effects on immoral behavior. Notably, moral identity had interaction effect with moral positioning.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.128-150
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• 2013

This paper is to examine the interrelationship between morality (or ethics) and geography and education in terms of the moral and ethical dimension embedded moral turn in geography. Since the 1970s, the geography have morally turned with stressing realization of social relevance and justice through interest on moral issues such as the spatial inequality and human welfare in the world of difference. This moral turn in geography has formed the area of moral geography, and emphasized the ethics of care and responsibility of human and nature with warning of immoral geographies of others and nature in the world of difference with the recent trend of postmodernism. For morally careful geography teaching, it is now good time that geography educators need to think the moral turn in geography education. If geography education is willing to contribute to make a better world, it needs to reflect more morally on geography curriculum and instruction in terms of the ethics of care and responsibility.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.415-423
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• 2019

This study focused on establishing the basic direction for the development of officials ethics education contents using value clarification. The value clarification is well known as an effective teaching and learning method to develop moral judgment among others as follows: moral sensitivity, moral motivation, moral practice. This study outlines the teaching-learning method and the evaluation method for the actual officials ethics education. This waits for the further empirical works.