Moral values may have a shared universal core beneath cultural variation

Evidence

James Q. Wilson, The Moral Sense (New York: Free Press, 1993); Michael Walzer, Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), esp. chaps. 1 and 4; and for a brief overview, Frances V. Harbour, “Basic Moral Values: A Shared Core,” Ethics and International Affairs, 9 (1995), 155–170. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 955

Categorization

• XREF: Walzer’s thick/thin morality directly challenges Huntington’s civilizational-relativist frame and would make a useful counterpoint for the existing library on cosmopolitan moral arguments. — connects to: Moral choice persists unchanged across historical situations — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 29; Moral philosophy belongs to culture and thus coevolves with, rather than opposes, cognition. — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 111; Public schools should cultivate ethical thought about cultural patterns harming life — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 226 (+1 more)