Philosophy

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 The Ontological Basis of Moral Judgements

The Haidt and Graham article , When Morality Opposes Justice Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals May not Recognize (Social Justice Research , 2007 , is an indictment of modern academia . It asserts , with substantial evidence , that academia is a fortress of liberal activism , one that holds the general population in contempt While the general population often is conservative , universities (and many media outlets ) are islands of liberalism . They do not speak to one another , they speak past one another . The academics view the general

br population as rubes who have non-rational motivates for their moral ideas that must ' be eliminated if moral progress ' is to ensue

The authors of this piece are speaking to an almost completely liberal audience . The authors are also trying to tell their audience to stop holding their opponents in the surrounding towns in contempt , but to begin understanding the moral motivations of those whose ideas the academics and social justice researchers ' hold in contempt . One can hold that the authors hold conservatives as zoo animals on display , whom modern political zoologists must study to discern their hidden motivations , and therefore understand ' them in a sort of condescending way . On the other hand , one can hold that the authors are speaking the same of liberal academics : that they are isolated and teachers who are so cut off from the broader concerns of society (those not filtered though media lenses ) that they cannot understand what actually makes society...