Are the concepts of fact and value as distinct as we tend to believe? It is a common understanding that fact and value are distinct categories, mutually exclusive to the extent that philosophy has developed separate fields for the study of each, respectively epistemology and axiology. But is this really so? I shall try below… Continue reading Fact and Value: Two Sides of One Coin?
Tag: moral foundations theory
The Diversity Deficit in the Moral Sphere
This is a presentation made at the 5th ICHJA conference in Korea. We argue that an important first step in the pushback against cultural socialist hegemony is in recognizing and publicizing the ways in which it is being exercised and in understanding the contours of the contemporary moral landscape which facilitate the hegemony. There needs… Continue reading The Diversity Deficit in the Moral Sphere
The Decline of Virtue
It was observed by Haidt (2012) based on his moral foundations theory that the difference in perspective between liberals and conservatives is not so much in the values they espouse as in the weights they assign to them, with liberals in particular citing the embodiment of care (kindness) as the overriding moral imperative at the… Continue reading The Decline of Virtue