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Moral universalism
About: Moral universalism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 119 publications have been published within this topic receiving 3027 citations.
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8 Nov 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present four easy reasons to ignore world poverty and defend our acquiescence in world poverty, and do our new global economic order really not harm the poor?
Abstract: Introduction.I Some Cautions About Our Moral JudgementsII Four Easy Reasons to Ignore World PovertyIII Defending Our Acquiescence in World PovertyIV Does Our New Global Economic Order Really Not Harm the Poor?V Responsibilities and ReformsChapter 1: Human Flourishing and Universal Justice1.0 Introduction1.1 Social Justice1.2 Paternalism1.3 Justice in First Approximation1.4 Essential Refinements1.5 Human Rights1.6 Specification of Human Rights and Responsibilities for their Realization1.7 ConclusionChapter 2: How Should Human Rights be Conceived?2.0 Introduction2.1 From Natural Law to Rights2.2 From Natural Rights to Human Rights2.3 Official Disrespect2.4 The Libertarian Critique of Social and Economic Rights2.5 The Critique of Social and Economic Rights as 'Manifesto Rights'2.6 Disputes about Kinds of Human RightsChapter 3: Loopholes in Moralities3.0 Introduction3.1 Types of Incentives3.2 Loopholes3.3 Social Arrangements3.4 Case 1: The Converted Apartment Building3.5 Case 2: The Homelands Policy of White South Africa3.6 An Objection3.7 Strengthening3.8 Fictional Histories3.9 Puzzles of Equivalence3.10 ConclusionChapter 4: Moral Universalism and Global Economic Justice4.0 Introduction4.1 Moral Universalism4.2 Our Moral Assessment of National and Global Economic Orders4.3 Some Factual Background about the Global Economic Order4.3.1 The Extent of World Poverty4.3.2 The Extent of Global Inequality4.3.3 Trends in World Poverty and Inequality 4.4 Conceptions of National and Global Economic Justice Contrasted4.5 Moral Universalism and David Miller's Contextualism4.6 Contextualist Moral Universalism and John Rawls's Moral Conception4.7 Rationalizing Divergent Moral Conceptions Through a Double Standard4.8 Rationalizing Divergent Moral Conceptions Without a Double Standard4.9 The Causal Role of Global Institutions in the Persistence of Severe Poverty4.10 ConclusionChapter 5: The Bounds of Nationalism5.0 Introduction5.1 Common Nationalism - Priority for the Interests of Compatriots5.2 Lofty Nationalism - The Justice-for-Compatriots Priority5.3 Explanatory Nationalism - The Deep Significance of National Borders5.4 ConclusionChapter 6: Achieving Democracy6.0 Introduction6.1 The Structure of the Problem Faced by Fledgling Democracies6.2 Reducing the Expected Rewards of Coups d'Etat6.3 Undermining the Borrowing Privilege of Authoritarian Predators6.3.1 The Criterial Problem6.3.2 The Tit-For-Tat Problem6.3.3 The Establishment Problem6.3.4 Synthesis6.4 Undermining the Resource Privilege of Authoritarian Predators6.5 ConclusionChapter 7: Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty7.0 Introduction7.1 Institutional Cosmopolitanism Based on Human Rights7.2 The Idea of State Sovereignty7.3 Some Main Reasons for a Vertical Dispersal of Sovereignty7.3.1 Peace and Security7.3.2 Reducing Oppression7.3.3 Global Economic Justice7.3.4 Ecology/Democracy7.4 The Shaping and Reshaping of Political Units7.5 ConclusionChapter 8: Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend8.0 Introduction8.1 Radical Inequality and Our Responsibility8.2 Three Grounds of Injustice8.2.1 The Effects of Shared Social Institutions8.2.2 Uncompensated Exclusion from the Use of Natural Resources8.2.3 The Effects of a Common and Violent History8.3 A Moderate Proposal8.4 The Moral Argument for the Proposed Reform8.5 Is the Reform Proposal Realistic?8.6 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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TL;DR: The following is simultaneously an essay in sociological theory, in cultural sociology, and in the empirical reconstruction of postwar Western history as discussed by the authors ; it introduces and specifies a modi cation for the reconstruction of post-war Western history.
Abstract: The following is simultaneously an essay in sociological theory, in cultural sociology, and in the empirical reconstruction of postwar Western history. Per theory, it introduces and specifies a mod...
415 citations
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16 Jul 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, a social theory of Cultural Trauma: A Social Theory Chapter 2. Holocaust and Trauma, Moral Universalism in the West, and Moral Restriction in Israel (with Shai Dromi) are discussed.
Abstract: Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Cultural Trauma: A Social Theory Chapter 2. Holocaust and Trauma: Moral Universalism in the West Chapter 3. Holocaust and Trauma: Moral Restriction in Israel (with Shai Dromi) Chapter 4. Massacre and Trauma: Nanjing and the Silence of Maoism (with Rui Gao) Chapter 5. Partition and Trauma: Repairing India and Pakistan Chapter 6. Globalization and Trauma: The Dream of Cosmopolitan Peace Bibliography Notes
314 citations
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1 Jan 2007
TL;DR: A claim to universalism: Breaking the Equation between the Nation-State and Society Apart Part 2: Classical Social Theory 3. The Critique of Methodological Nationalism: A Debate in Two Waves 4. Max Weber (1864-1920): Politics and the Sociological Equivocations of the Nation State 5. Emile Durkheim (1857-1917): Moral Universalism and the Normative Ambiguity of the nation-State Part 3: Modernist Social Theory 6. Talcott Parsons (1902-1979): The Totalitarian Threat to the
Abstract: Introduction Part 1: Understanding the Nation-State 1. The Critique of Methodological Nationalism: A Debate in Two Waves 2. A Claim to Universalism: Breaking the Equation between the Nation-State and Society Apart Part 2: Classical Social Theory 3. Karl Marx (1818-1883): The Rise of Capitalism and the Historical Elusiveness of the Nation-State 4. Max Weber (1864-1920): Politics and the Sociological Equivocations of the Nation-State 5. Emile Durkheim (1857-1917): Moral Universalism and the Normative Ambiguity of the Nation-State Part 3: Modernist Social Theory 6. Talcott Parsons (1902-1979): The Totalitarian Threat to the Nation-State 7. Raymond Aron (1905-1983), Barrington Moore (1913-2005) and Reinhardt Bendix (1916-1991): Industrialism and the Historicity of the Nation-State Part 4: Contemporary Social Theory 8. Michael Mann (1942- present) and Eric Hobsbawm (1919- present): Classes, Nations and Different Conceptions of the Nation-State 9. Manuel Castells (1942- present) and Globalization Theorists: The 'Definitive' Decline of the Nation-State 10. Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) and Jurgen Habermas (1929- present): World Society, Cosmopolitanism and the Nation-state. Closing Remarks
175 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined whether cultural values predict individuals' moral attitudes and showed that the answer depends on the moral issues studied using items from the Morally Debatable Behaviours Scale (MDBS) fielded in the World Value Survey (WVS), and found that moral issues can be differentiated cross-culturally into attitudes towards dishonest-illegal and personal-sexual issues.
Abstract: This study examined whether cultural values predict individuals’ moral attitudes The main objective was to shed light on the moral universalism and relativism debate by showing that the answer depends on the moral issues studied Using items from the Morally Debatable Behaviours Scale (MDBS) fielded in the World Value Survey (WVS), we found that moral issues can be differentiated cross-culturally into attitudes towards (1) dishonest–illegal and (2) personal–sexual issues Drawing upon evolutionary and cultural theories, we expected that the former moral domain is not related to cultural values, whereas the latter is influenced by cultural conceptions of the self (ie independent versus interdependent selves) We used multilevel modelling with Schwartz’ cultural values as the independent variables and the two moral domains as assessed through the MDBS as dependent variables to test our hypothesis After controlling for individual-level differences in moral attitudes as well as the socio-economic development of countries, our findings confirmed that attitudes towards dishonest–illegal issues were not related to cultural values whereas attitudes towards personal–sexual issues were predicted by the Autonomy–Embeddedness value dimension We conclude that our study sheds not only light on the universalism and relativism debate, but also on the discriminant validity of cultural values Copyright # 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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