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The Dialogue of Cultural Traditions: a global perspective Dialogue, Cultural Traditions and Ethics Lecture 5 The Possibility of Moral Knowledge William Sweet Culture as ways of living, ways of meaning, and ways of knowing Relation of culture and traditions and practices Ethical traditions as cultural traditions How to respond to challenges? Criticism / response Providing a positive view Criteria: Meaning Truth Relevance Sufficient evidence The tradition of reason and rationality a) foundationalism b) the turn to the subject Its criticisms of religious and ‘tradition-based’ ethics i) rationalist-based natural law ii) Enlightenment (and post-Enlightenment) rationalism and scepticism Some contemporary ‘post modern’ approaches Alasdair MacIntyre Jurgen Habermas John Rawls? Kai Nielsen Jean Ladriere? Postmodern criticisms (a summary) a) versus rationalism b) versus anthropomorphism c) versus essentialism, natures and natural laws, universal character of morality d) historicity We cannot know nature or reality in itself Truth is not a correspondence of thing to the world And if it were, how does ‘morality’ fit with the world; what is? There is no ‘ground’ for any of our beliefs We can provide only explanations and narratives There can be explanations, but they are made within a context We can try to ‘awaken’ or ‘educate’ the sentiments We can provide sentimental education The aim is ‘solidarity’ in ethics There is moral progress Responding to post modern approaches We can know reality Not all opinions are ‘on a par’ There is a purpose to sentimental education We look for explanations of our feelings footprints Why are babies worth more than bugs? Is solidarity ‘reasonable’? Responding to skepticism What is moral knowledge? How do we acquire this knowledge? Relation of moral theory and moral education Why dialogue? What kind of dialogue?