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WEIRD philosophers since Kant and Mill have mostly generated moral systems that are individualistic, rule-based, and universalist.
govern a society of autonomous individuals.
sociocentric morality,
place the needs of groups and institutions first,
You’ll have additional concerns,
and you’ll need additional virtues to bind people together.
let’s try to understand moral diversity first, before we judge other moralities.
Richard Shweder’s
ethics of autonomy, community, and divinity.
ethic of community
ethic of divinity
The body is a temple, not a playground.
Bhubaneswar,
the capital city of Orissa,
you do find the idea that high = good = pure = God whereas low = bad = dirty = animal quite widely.
moral disgust
low on this vertical dimension.
The ethic of divinity lets us give voice to inchoate feelings of elevation and degradation—our sense of “higher” and “lower.” It gives us a way to condemn crass consumerism and mindless or trivialized sexuality.
other moral intuitions latent within yourself.
Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices.
more than one valid framework
when David Hume was alive, he was fighting a three-way battle.
ATTACK OF THE SYSTEMIZERS
Autism
Empathizing
Systemizing
a region of
personality-space—the
had Bentham been alive today, “it is likely he would have received the diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome.”
That would be an ad hominem argument, a logical error, and a mean thing to say.
in psychology our goal is descriptive.
The True Taste restaurant, serving up a one-receptor morality.
the original triggers of a module and its current triggers.
Moral Foundations Theory.
prewired—flexible and subject to change—rather than hardwired,
Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. … “Built-in” does not mean unmalleable; it means “organized in advance of experience.”
attachment theory,
Robert Trivers published his theory of reciprocal altruism.
“tit for tat.”
The male mind appears to be innately tribal—that
We are the descendants of successful tribalists,
pecking orders
authority should not be confused with power.
“Authority Ranking.”
more like those of a parent and child than those of a dictator and fearful underlings:
legitimate asymmetries,
the obligations of their station.
Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ),
“What Makes People Vote Republican?”
Emile Durkheim.
