PHIL 12A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Relativism
21 Mar 2019
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Core disgust : a distinctly human, potentially evolved trait used to defend against oral contamination. If it"s sickening to put in your mouth, then it"s disgusting because it could be harmful to our bodies (diseases, viruses, bacteria). Omnivore"s dilemma : we can eat both plants and meats. New foods could have fungus, toxins, bacteria, etc that could kill us. This is a core-disgust response is a protective emotion to things that are foreign. Elaborated/animal reminder : not based on health or the threat of contamination. Disgust elicited by behavior that reminds us of our animal natures. We might be innately disposed to separate humans from other animals. Socio-moral/moralized disgust : not about contamination or animal-reminder. An embodied schemata, a socially learned script that co-opts natural disgust responses for norm enforcement. Moral dumbfounding : when someone maintains a normative judgement without being able to articulate any reasons to support it moral sentimentalism (based on emotions, not reason).
