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60 Post author: Yvain 16 April 2011 01:06AM

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Comment author: Unnamed 17 April 2011 11:20:15PM *  3 points [-]

The 3 are community, autonomy, and divinity, and they come from the work of cultural anthropologist Richard Shweder. Purity was a big part of the ethic of divinity, so much so that you could even argue that "purity" would be a more appropriate label for it.

Jonathan Haidt worked with Shweder at the start of his career and basically adopted Shweder's system, but he has since modified his views to include 5 moral foundations rather than 3: harm, fairness, ingroup, hierarchy, and purity.

Comment author: byrnema 20 April 2011 02:41:42AM *  0 points [-]

Those are the three, thanks.

But I never read Shweder or Haidt, I was only exposed to those ideas on LW.

Aha! Now that I know what to google, I discover that I was exposed to these ideas here.

I even took that quiz to find that I was relatively low on the purity foundation, just as in the example figure. The model and the quiz made a favorable impression -- I decided I was comfortable with carving morality in that way -- but then I apparently forgot the details.