In recent decades, cognitive and behavioral scientists have learned a great deal about how people think and behave. On the most general level, there is a basic consensus that many judgments, including ethical judgments, are made by intuitive, even unconscious, impulses. This basic insight has opened the door to a wide variety of more particular studies that investigate how judgments are influenced by group identity, self‐conception, emotions, perceptions of risk, and many other factors. When these forms of research engage ethical issues, they are sometimes called empirical ethics. This essay argues that the field of religious ethics would benefit from a more robust engagement with empirical ethics than it has thus far undertaken. In doing so, it offers a brief account of how issues of moral psychology and moral anthropology have been treated in religious ethics, and it highlights ways that the scientific findings challenge some prevailing norms in religious ethics. It ends by suggesting avenues by which religious ethics research could productively engage empirical ethics.

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宗教伦理与经验伦理

在最近的几十年中，认知和行为科学家已经学到了很多有关人们如何思考和行为的知识。在最一般的水平上，基本共识是，许多判断，包括道德判断，都是由直觉甚至无意识的冲动做出的。这种基本见解为各种更具体的研究打开了大门，这些研究探讨了群体身份，自我观念，情绪，风险感知和许多其他因素如何影响判断。当这些形式的研究涉及道德问题时，它们有时被称为经验伦理学。本文认为，宗教伦理学领域将受益于与迄今为止相比更加​​牢固地与经验伦理学交往。在这样做，它简要介绍了如何在宗教伦理学中处理道德心理学和道德人类学问题，并着重强调了科学发现挑战宗教伦理学一些普遍规范的方式。最后，提出了宗教伦理学研究可以有效地介入经验伦理学的途径。