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Moral reasoning

Moral reasoning is the study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral rules. It is a subdiscipline of moral psychology that overlaps with moral philosophy, and is the foundation of descriptive ethics.

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Moral reasoning → study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral rules

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