Grounding Experience Analysis

Different cultures build different grounding experiences, because experiences are not understood without interpretation. As they experience things, people interpret them. One cannot be objective while interpreting any given, since social and cultural features influence any interpretation. There exist no “innocent eye” in any experience. If experience of normal situations cannot be separated from interpretation, neither can experience from virtue. There can be no uninterpreted, universal, pure grounding experience that lies under all ethical inquiries over the virtue’s meaning. Every situation has already collected different interpretation-laden experience. Human face the same experience when it comes to experience of nature. However, experiences of fear of death and experiences of bodily appetites are not common to all human. Research has shown that there is a social construction of emotions that affects the degree of fear one constructs throughout their life. In other words, experience of fear can be taught and culturally constructed. The grounding experience includes a wide range of diverse experiences that are affected by cultural interpretation. Hence the grounding experience is not common. Even sense perception differs according to one context or another. And the perception of body appetite varies from culture to another as well. For instance, the feeling of pain and its relation with badness is

It exists in the contemporary society but did not exist in the Greek society. She argues that in their bringing up, children nowadays, as opposed to the Greek times, learn to keep an eye on the gender issue involved in sexuality. Although now this issue concerns us morally, the Greek would have deemed it morally irrelevant. Thus, the existence of moral upbringing can be easily overlooked because it generally occurs at a young age.
Nussbaum’s response 2
Nussbaum admits that grounding experience will not give us a neutral straightforward and unproblematic base of virtue. However, people do recognize the experiences of others in other cultures as similar to their own. They communicate and understand issues of crucial importance, and allow themselves to be moved by them. When people of different culture discuss in general the quality of human life, they will find some differences in how each understand some concepts. But regardless, they proceed in their discussion since they are talking about the same human problem.
However, if interlocutors have relativist approaches, the discussion would not continue. Discussions show the presence of an overlap in experiences/problems among cultures. This overlap appeared to be evident in the sphere of grounding experiences, which supports the idea that those experiences are literally “grounding” for ethical