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This study examines the sexual predator case of Harvey Weinstein utilizing Erdynast's Domains Theory (Erdynast & Chen, 2014) and a Rawlsian social contract view to analyze the moral issues emanating from sexual harassment. Employing four taskdomains and fourteen moral developmental levels (or, stages) (Erdynast, Chen, & Ikin, 2016), the paper analyzes pertinent moral issues in a case study of Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein's claim that all sexual acts were consensual is starkly contrasted by the 80+ victims' competing claims about his sexual harassment of them, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and rape. Evidence in Domain I - factual judgment - is evaluated to assess whether all claimants were acting as free and equal moral persons (Rawls, 1993) as are whether their rights were violated by abuser-protecting laws, statutes and policies. Domain II is the domain of worthwhile interests - in short, conceptions of the good (Rawls, 1993). Using a Rawlsian concept of original position (Rawls, 1971; Rawls, 1999), Domain III - conceptions of justice and right - places a Rawlsian constraint on the pursuit of conceptions of good when such pursuits violate the equal rights of others. Weinstein's initial claim that "all acts were consensual" was an attempt to displace the issues into Domain II - pursuit of joint conceptions of good. This study also examines whether Harvey Weinstein's requirements, that female employees cater to his aesthetic tastes of wardrobe and fragrances - in Domain IV, conceptions of the beautiful - violate Domain III laws and statutes. Kohlberg's 6 stages of moral development are discussed as 14 stages that incorporate Kohlberg's mystical Stage 7 and Rawls' moral development of the love of humankind as supererogatory conceptions of right according to the MJI theory and scoring manual (Colby & Kohlberg, 1987a). Further, Rawls' identification of Vices at the Level of the Morality of Association (Rawls, 1971) and Erdynast's Relational Vices (Erdynast & Chen, 2014) are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
