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The Moral Foundations of Politics

Ian Shapiro

When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it Ian Shapiro investigates this political dilemma, evaluating answers that have been proposed in the utilitarian, Marxist, social contract, anti-Enlightenment and democratic traditions.

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The book contains a questionnaire about moral foundations, and the speaker mentions one of the questions as an example. The question asks about someone using an old American flag as a cleaning rag, and the speaker indicates that the question relates to the moral foundation of purity.

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Oh, oh like a woman is cleaning up and she finds an old american flag to use as a rag to clean the floors Are you like how do you feel about this and you can choose like it's not okay. It's not that i...

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The book contains a questionnaire about moral foundations, and the speaker mentions one of the questions as an example. The question asks about someone using an old American flag as a cleaning rag, and the speaker indicates that the question relates to the moral foundation of purity.

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Oh, oh like a woman is cleaning up and she finds an old american flag to use as a rag to clean the floors Are you like how do you feel about this and you can choose like it's not okay. It's not that it's like really not Okay, it's it's not okay. It's fine It's it's okay. It's it's totally fine who cares and like if I saw someone take And like like a real american flag From like something historical And they tried to use it as a rag I very very well may use physical force against this individual to prevent that from happening

I think there's an I don't it's it's it's something about like do you care about? Like where you come from and things and I think if you don't have that If you are like, I don't care about the flag who cares what happens is That mindset destroys a society because you don't preserve the things that allowed you to succeed in the first place

I think that has to do with sanctity or something like that Like I don't know purity Purity is one of them. I don't think it's I don't think it's sanctity. I think it's purity

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