RE: thoughts on morality
July 28, 2015 at 3:02 pm
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2015 at 3:05 pm by The Barefoot Bum.)
(July 28, 2015 at 1:50 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: But you will find inside you, in addition to these two impulses, a third thing which tells you that you ought to follow the impulse to help, and suppress the impulse to run away. Now this thing that judges between two instincts, that decides which should be encouraged, cannot itself be either of them.
It's called socialization and enculturation.
(July 28, 2015 at 1:50 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: Another way of seeing that the Moral Law is not simply one of our instincts is this. If two instincts are in conflict, and there is nothing in a creature's mind except those two instincts, obviously the stronger of the two must win. But at those moments when we are most conscious of the Moral Law, it usually seems to be telling us to side with the weaker of the two impulses.
Indeed. We don't usually have to be socialized to do what we would do without socialization.
ETA: Ah, C.S. Lewis. Protip: If you're going to plagiarize, plagiarize something good, not Lewis's inane drivel.
