Intuitive Ethics: How Innately Prepared Intuitions Generate Culturally Variable Virtues

Haidt and Joseph present a modified nativist view that fully respects the depth and importance of cultural variation in morality. Focusing attention on a heretofore ignored link: the link between intuitions, especially a subset of intuitions that are innate in important respects, and virtues, which...

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Published in:Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2004-09, Vol.133 (4), p.55-66
Main Authors: Haidt, Jonathan, Joseph, Craig
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Behavior
Cognitive science
Culture
Disgust
Emotions
Ethical aspects
Ethical instruction
Ethical intuitionism
Ethicists
Ethics
Evolution
General points
History
History of science and technology
History of science in relation to other disciplinary fields
Human nature
Humans
Intuition
Mind
Morality
On Human Nature
Philosophy
Psychology
Social aspects
Virtue
Virtue ethics
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Summary:Haidt and Joseph present a modified nativist view that fully respects the depth and importance of cultural variation in morality. Focusing attention on a heretofore ignored link: the link between intuitions, especially a subset of intuitions that are innate in important respects, and virtues, which by and large are social constructions. Hoping that a fuller understanding of the links between virtues and intuitions will lead to greater tolerance and respect between liberals and conservatives, between people of different nations, and, perhaps in the far distant future, between nativists and empiricists.
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192
DOI:10.1162/0011526042365555