regularities in human societies

Westermarck’s empiricism is rooted in a desire to find universal regularities in human societies. Influenced by positivism, he adopted an objectivist stance: cultural practices can be analyzed according to general laws. He linked social phenomena to psychological or biological causes, as illustrated by his vision of moral judgments in The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas (1906). (6) Indeed, Edvard Westermarck articulates this idea as follows: “The predicates of moral judgments are ultimately based on emotions.” (7) This postulate led him to analyze local forms of justice or customary sanctions in tribes สล็อต