According to Skillen, the basic ideological assumption in Western ideological morality is
that
a. humans are naturally corrupt and selfish, and moral rules must overcome such
selfishness.
b. morality is universal, and there must be a single cross-cultural morality that governs
all peoples.
c. morality is divinely given and humans requires miraculous divine intervention in
order to follow its dictates.
d. acting morally is easy and natural to social animals such as humans.
e. morality cannot be rationally justified.
a
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