In the context of cultural relativism, when using a mandala to represent a culture's moral community, beings represented on the outermost edge of the mandala are:

A. free and equal members of a moral society.
B. approaching apotheosis, or ascendance to godhood.
C. believed to have transcended the bindings of the material world.
D. considered morally inferior to beings toward the center of the mandala.


Answer: D

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