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en-wikipedia-org-8100		Moral universalism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2408	358	56	An early example of moral universalism can be found in Judaism: the Seven Laws of Noah (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח‎, Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach),[7][8][9] a set of imperatives which, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a binding set of universal moral laws for the "sons of Noah" – that is, all of humanity.[7][8][9][10][11][12] The Seven Laws of Noah include prohibitions against worshipping idols, cursing God, murder, adultery, bestiality, sexual immorality, theft, eating flesh torn from a living animal, as well as the obligation to establish courts of justice.[7][8][9][10][11][13][14] The Jewish sages expanded the concept of universal morality within the Seven Laws of Noah and added several other laws beyond the seven listed in the Talmud and Tosefta,[7][9][10] such as prohibitions against committing incest, cruelty to animals, pairing animals of different species, grafting trees of different kinds, castration, emasculation, homosexuality, pederasty, and sorcery among others,[7][9][10][15][16] with some of the sages going so far as to make a list of 30 laws.[7][9] The Talmud expands the scope of the Seven Laws of Noah to cover about 100 of the 613 Jewish commandments.[17] Non-cognitivism: A meta-ethical theory according to which moral issues are not subject to rational determination.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8100.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8100.txt