Moral Polyphony: Reconstructing Moral Phylosophy Beyond Rawls, Habernas, and Kohlberg

This multiplicity does not imply equal validity of all claims. Rather, it demands a moral epistemology that can navigate contradiction, contest power, and interrogate one's own moral location.

5.2 Normativity as Situated Tension

Unlike Kantian deontology or utilitarian teleology, which seek moral resolution via logic or calculation, this new philosophy emphasizes moral situatedness:

• Morality is not prior to context but emerges through tension between layers.

• Normative force arises not from abstract principles alone, but from the dialectical friction among different moral orientations.

Thus, morality is not something one possesses, but something one enacts, often at great existential cost---especially when confronting hegemonic morality with a transcendent or prophetic ethic.

5.3 Toward a Praxis of Moral Navigation

If SMH serves as a cartography of moral life, then its corresponding praxis must teach moral agents to:

• Diagnose their own moral motivations and blind spots across layers,

• Discern when authority is legitimate and when it must be resisted,

• Decent hegemonic norms by invoking forgotten or suppressed moral languages (indigenous, spiritual, poetic),

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