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The autonomy-community-divinity trichotomy.
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| Richard Shweder, suggest that autonomy is particular to Western cultures thus, moral spheras are arbitrory to the culture | |
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| Haidt and Paul Rozinhave built on Shweder's work, but they interpreted the moral spheres as universal mental faculties with different evolutionary origins and functions | |
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The ethic of community underlies a cultural relativism
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| Donald Symons comments on the way people's judgments switch from autonomy– to community-based morality: for example the case of genital mutilation in some Africa's countries. | |
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| In addition, people confuse attractiveness with virtuosity; morality with purity. Racism and sexism are often expressed as a desire to avoid impurity. Uh? | |
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Treat other people in the way that we demand they treat us
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| That's why Leon Kass argued that we may abandon moral reasoning when it comes to cloning and go with our gut feelings. He stated "repugnance may be the only voice left that speaks " | |
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| yes, but in a defensible moral position we validate our conviction with resons. Untli today, we don't have good reasons to show why homosexuality should be suppressed | |
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