Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...herself was a participant. As Walzer sees it, you are in fact asking her to interpret a story of which both of you are a part; or, more precisely, you are asking that she accept your interpretation or offer a better one. As Walzer puts it, "the experience of moral argument is best understood in the interpretive mode...
Watzer's advocacy of this "interpretive" mode of argument places him, as he is well aware, alongside thinkers such as Michael Sandel, who believe that appeals to shared understandings among identifiable communities are the most effective form of moral argument...
...their previous circumstances and took a vast risk with the unknown. They knew that while they would take many memories with them, they were also leaving much behind. Eventually these people would justify their new constitution in the very universal language Walzer now questions. The universalistic claims of our moral heritage are part of our American communal experience--a fact that makes Walzer's critique of them ironic...
...going too far to argue that Jewish communitarians such as Walzer and Sandel are engaged in a moving but ultimately very particular struggle to synthesize two moral languages, that of American democracy on the one hand and that of the Jewish shtetl on the other? Such an argument would account for Walzer often slipping into a language of universal human rights. But it would explain equally well why Walzer finds in textual criticism his model for social criticism. Has not the community of which he is a part survived by finding a homeland in religious texts...
Dudley F. Blodgett, external relations directorat the Education School, called Kohlberg was "anarchitect of the field of moral education."Although some people have disputed Kohlberg'stheories, he was the greatest contributor to thefield of moral dilemmas, Blodgett said...