If you look at the past 60 years of change in China from the perspective of ethics, morality and philosophy, you can follow a historical boundary line that shows a decline in family values and a rise in individualism.
If the feminine ethics of care provides the epistemically privileged perspective on morality, then our access to moral knowledge is predicated on the continuation of existing gender relations, which produce this ethic.
As Hume has it, the calm passions support the dual correction of perspective constitutive of morality, alluded to above.
The Nozickian view implies what, from the perspective of common sense morality, is absurd: that a desperate person who sells her organs or body does so freely, that it's fine to pay someone a paltry sum while profiting hugely off their labor, that people deserve to get rich because of accidents of birth, that there's nothing wrong with walking by a drowning man.
Given the intellectual, cultural, and political importance of the nature of morality, a scientific perspective on the origin of moral behavior seems essential for a full, humanistic understanding of evolution.
At first, we think we are watching an acerbic and sour comedy about characters so obsessed with their next movie or book launch that they've lost all sense of morality and perspective.
The vague and tendentious method parses the story in terms of pleasure-seekers victimized by the forces of repression, yet when one zoophile equates his love for horses to other men's love for their wives and children, questions of morality and perspective arise which Devor scrupulously avoids.
As the child develops it learns the language of morality and thereby the moral perspective embedded in it.
