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Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality

Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality. Haidt tells the dead chicken story and then asks “Can you tell me why that was wrong?”

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Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality

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  1. Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality • Haidt tells the dead chicken story and then asks “Can you tell me why that was wrong?” • Customer at McDonald’s (after a long pause): “You mean you don’t know why it’s wrong to do that to a dead chicken? I have to explain this to you? What planet are you from?” • Penn students typically judged the behavior in this story as ok (if strange): “It’s his chicken, he’s eating it, nobody is getting hurt”. • WEIRD cultures: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. The WEIRDer you are the more you see a world full of separate objects, rather than relationships. • Similar to Shweder’s distinction of sociocentric vs. individualistic cultures.

  2. Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality

  3. Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality Shweder: “Yet the conceptions held by others are available to us, in the sense that when we truly understand their conception of things we come to recognize possibilities latent within our own rationality ... and those ways of conceiving of things become salient for us for the first time, or once again. In other words, there is no homogenous ‘backcloth’ to our world. We are multiple from the start.”

  4. Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality Shweder’s Theory of Morality

  5. Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality • Haidt: “Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other potential concerns are left undeveloped and unconnected to the web of shared meanings and values that become our adult moral matrix. • If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong... • Conversely, if you are raised in a more traditional society, or within an evangelical Christian household in the U.S., you becomes so well educated in the ethics of community and divinity that you can detect disrespect and degradation even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong...” [may be]

  6. Part II. There’s More to Morality than Harm and Fairness Chapt 5. Beyond WEIRD Morality • Coming up: • Catalog of moral intuitions (more than harm and fairness) • How a small set of innate and universal moral foundations can be used to construct a great variety of moral matrices • Tools for understanding moral arguments emanating from matrices that are not your own

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