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The cultural capital of the moralist and the scientist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Min Ju Kang  and
Michael Glassman
Min Ju Kang
Affiliation:
Department of Child and Family Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea. [email protected]
Michael Glassman
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. [email protected]
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Abstract

In this commentary we explore Knobe's ideas of moral judgments leading to moral intuitions in the context of the moral thought and moral action debate. We suggest that Knobe's primary moral judgment and the setting of a continuum with a default point is in essence a form of cultural capital, different from moral action, which is more akin to social capital.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 340 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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