Emotions & Moral Knowledge- A Christian Perspective

Skeptics have for a long time told me that they emotionally feel that the Bible's stories about the Conquests or God commanding Abraham and others to kill people is utterly repugnant!   In this episode, I do a solo show on my my own thesis about the role emotions play in moral epistemology based on my Final Essay in my PHL of Emotions Grad seminar.     I think that Emotions function as moral heuristics in certain circumstances and this translates into moral knowledge, albeit limited moral knowledge.  Emotions are designed only to speak to the issue of Moral Idealness (the equal upholding of all moral principles) not directly on the morality vs. immorality of complex moral dilemmas or situations- they are not designed to adjudicate between the morally justified exemption of a moral principle and an actual immoral violation of a moral principle.