Re: [xmca] Taking culture into account/Doing harm?

[Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>]

I'm not talking about descriptive universals, Huw, but prescriptive ones. Ones that try to tell us what we should do, in the form of abstract principles. There have been many attempts to formulate those, too. 

Martin

On Jul 23, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Huw Lloyd wrote:

>> 
>> 
> Though there have been attempts at formulating human universals.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Universals
> 
> In principle such attempts of traits analysis are compatible with genetic
> methods.
> 
> Huw
> 
> 
>> On Jul 23, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Greg Thompson wrote:
>> 
>>> Shweder actually has proposed a set of universal principles. It's just
>>> that, to my mind, these tend to be rather tautological and therefore
>> seem a
>>> bit empty (can't recall exactly, but one of these was something like
>> "don't
>>> do bad things to good people").
>> 
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