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    It is not the case that The common morality's norms are universally applicable despite being historically grounded

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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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    • 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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