ABSTRACT
The anguish of Arjuna and the arrogance of Euthyphro Most of the time, people live within their concrete moralities as comfortably (or otherwise) as they live in their houses or tents, and they do not feel called upon to justify their practices and attitudes or to examine what if any basis these might have. Having learned how it is appropriate to feel and conduct themselves toward family and friends, neighbors and strangers, their responses appear to them to have much the same status as those that enable them to cope with the natural world. People who come into contact with other groups having very different economies or cultural traditions find themselves confronting possible ways of relating to one another and conducting their daily affairs that would otherwise not occur to them. Groups of people following very different ways of life can exist side by side in relative peace, sometimes becoming mutually dependent on one another through trade, while viewing one another’s customs with anything ranging from curiosity to disdain.
