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On 24 July 2012 00:07, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote: > Seems to me that formulating universal principles is always a futile > attempt to escape from the situated character, the phronesis, that moral > judgments necessarily arise from. This makes then fallible, of course > (oops, that wasn't a good person after all!), but that's life. It's also > why critique, IMHO, has to take place within a dialog between among those > involved. > > Martin > > Though there have been attempts at formulating human universals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Universals In principle such attempts of traits analysis are compatible with genetic methods. Huw > On Jul 23, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Greg Thompson wrote: > > > Shweder actually has proposed a set of universal principles. It's just > > that, to my mind, these tend to be rather tautological and therefore > seem a > > bit empty (can't recall exactly, but one of these was something like > "don't > > do bad things to good people"). > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca