ABSTRACT
The impact of anthropology has been felt very sharply in ordinary thinking about morality. It has become a matter of common knowledge that people's standards, their actual moral rules and ideas about good and bad behavior, vary enormously. Anthropologists have found that differences go far beyond these matters of specific rules and regulations, or even goals and values. They reach into any and every part of the phenomena and structure of morality. Similarly, Karl Duncker, examining moral experience from the perspective of Gestalt psychology, postulates the existence of common human valuations, which can be discovered by probing under the variations in the meaning and institutional settings of acts. Common needs, common social tasks, common psychological processes, are bound to provide some common framework for the wide variety of human behaviors that different cultures have developed. The members of a society must share some common values and accept some bondage to their common goals and goods.
