Culture and morality

Morality, Development, and Culture

Morality and cultural identity emerge during human development in complex ways. We describe the theories and findings that focus on social exclusion and inclusion, social inequalities such as resource allocation inequalities, and intercultural contexts that both bear on and contribute to morality and moral development. This research reveals that individuals view morality as pertaining to fair, ...

Culture, Computation, Morality

I point to a deep and unjustly ignored relation between culture and computation. First, I interpret Piaget’s theory of child development with the language of theoretical computer science. Then I argue that the two different possible manifestations Piagetian disequilibrium are equivalent to two distinct cultural tendencies (what is commonly referred to as the East-West divide). I argue that this...

Moral Culture: Public Morality and Private Responsibility

The Culture of Morality social development, context, and conflict

Morality, Rationality and Impartiality

Morality as somehow involving rationality and impartiality received classic expression in philosophy of Kant who frankly speaks of “rational and impartial spectator” in contemplating the universal law. The overall aim of this paper is to show (1) that the idea of morality implies rationality and this will be reached at in refuting the moral scepticism; but (2) it does not necessarily indicates ...