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Alter kacker (it's Yiddish; do a web search); upper Manhattanite; Interested in: sociolinguistics, history, early film (including silents!), the commons, degrowth, open source (and more generally: open access, open culture, etc.). Focus on community: Its * history, * practice, * socioplitical dynamics, * place in human evoulution, * (relative) neglect by philosophy and social science * role in the 21st century That's maybe enough to give you an idea of me...

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started reading The honor code by Anthony Appiah

Anthony Appiah: The honor code (2010, W.W. Norton)

"How does moral progress happen? How are societies brought to repudiate immoral customs they have …

Appiah is inquiring into how what he calls "moral revolutions" -- somewhat analogous to Kuhn's "scientific revolutions" -- happen. There are chapters addressing sudden changes of attitude towards dueling in England, foot-binding in China, the Atlantic slave trade, and honor killings in Pakistan.