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    There are universally binding norms in ethics and aesthetics — Carmelics
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    There are universally binding norms in ethics and aesthetics

    AestheticsVirtue Ethics
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    • 1.Every domain of normative activity has a priori norms whose recognition is indispensable for that activity
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    • 2.Ethics and aesthetics are domains of normative activity
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    • 3.Certain actions and emotions can be universally valid, which requires universally binding norms to ground that validity
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    • 1.Moral and aesthetic judgments are expressions of culturally conditioned sentiment, not a priori rational legislation (Wittgenstein, 'Remarks on Fraser's Golden Bough').
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    • 2.The apparent universality of certain norms reflects contingent convergence in forms of life, not transcendent normative bindingness.
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    • 3.If normativity is internal to practices, no practice-transcendent 'universal' norms can be indispensable in the way P1 requires.
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    • 1.Nietzsche's genealogical method demonstrates that putatively universal ethical norms originate in historically particular power relations and valuations.
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    • 2.A norm whose origin is contingent and interest-laden cannot simultaneously claim unconditional, universal authority without equivocation.
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    • 3.Therefore, P3's inference from 'universally valid actions' to 'universally binding grounding norms' commits a genetic conflation that genealogy exposes.
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    The defining claim of SW Neo-Kantianism is that there are universally valid norms, and every universally valid norm has an a priori ground.[19] The concept of the a priori is therefore not a psychological or biological notion (the a priori is not the innate), nor is it an anthropological notion (the a priori is not what is universally assented to). The a priori are norms, the recognition of which is indispensable for normative activities. In theoretical philosophy, the a priori are norms the r
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