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Chapter 4
Moral Accents
How Cultures Teach Different Versions of 'Good'
How cultures parameterize biology into specific moral grammars: what gets moralized, which emotions are legitimate, and how language, religion, and metaphor carve up the moral space.
Moral grammarsCultural scriptsSacred languageMetaphor framesDomain selectionVariabilityUniversals
"Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun."
— Clifford Geertz
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