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    The common morality's norms are universally applicable despite being historically grounded

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    • 1.The common morality's authority is established historically through the success of its norms in advancing human flourishing across time and place
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    • 2.Historical grounding does not entail relativism if the resulting norms are applied universally
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    • 1.Alasdair MacIntyre demonstrates in 'Whose Justice? Which Rationality?' that what counts as 'flourishing' is tradition-dependent and internally contested across incommensurable frameworks.
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    • 2.A norm's historical success within Western liberal institutions does not constitute evidence of universal validity without begging the question against non-liberal traditions.
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    • 3.Beauchamp and Childress's selection of which historical practices constitute 'common morality' reflects prior normative commitments, making universality an assumption rather than a finding.
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    • 1.Bernard Williams argues that 'thick' ethical concepts (courage, cruelty) are culturally embedded and resist extraction into universal, culture-neutral norms.
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    • 2.If common morality norms require thick concepts to specify their content, their universality is parasitic on particular cultural frameworks that may not be globally shared.
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    Importantly, this common morality is historicist, in that its authority is established historically, through the success of its related norms in advancing human flourishing across time and place. However, unlike many historicist accounts, the common morality is not relativist, as its norms are to be applied universally. Beauchamp and Childress accord the common morality a special place within their approach, a place shielded from the jostling involved in the quest for coherence through wide refl
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