Moral alchemy: How love changes norms

We discuss a process by which non-moral concerns (that is concerns agreed to be non-moral within a particular cultural context) can take on moral content. We refer to this phenomenon as moral alchemy and suggest that it arises because moral obligations of care entail recursively valuing loved ones’...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Magid, Rachel, Schulz, Laura E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112319
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1767-3247
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2981-8039