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    Challenges→The moral attitudes of practitioners of traditional African religion are independent (autonomous) from the conduct and commands of spiritual beings.

    When a moral framework's foundational categories are defined by spiritual ontology, moral judgments cannot be autonomous from that ontology even if they appear evaluatively independent.

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    Key Terms

    Autonomous(as used in ethics)
    Making a choice freely on your own, without being forced or controlled by someone else.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    evaluatively independent(in ethics)
    Able to make judgments about right and wrong without being influenced or determined by something else.
    foundational categories(in philosophy and logic)
    The basic building blocks or main ideas that everything else in a system is built upon.
    moral framework(in ethics)
    A system of principles and ideas that explains what is right and wrong and how we should live.

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    spiritual ontology(in metaphysics and philosophy of religion)
    A religious or spiritual understanding of what exists and how reality is fundamentally structured (for example, the existence of God, souls, or divine order).

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