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What is the source for our morals?
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RE: What is the source for our morals?
(November 10, 2015 at 7:57 am)Mechaghostman2 Wrote: Obviously objective morality doesn't exist considering everyone has a different opinion on what they think is moral. However, considering most of us don't go around killing and raping people, I'd have to say there is a dominant thought process we all share that could be considered universal morality. Chimpanzees and other higher mammals also exhibit this morality, albeit on a smaller scale. So did we evolve our basic morals as some kind of preservation of our species? Or is it completely learned behavior; rules created by tyrants that become memes? Or perhaps both? Is there a part of our brain that we have found to contain morality?
Well, if everyone had a different opinion on what they think is moral - and I don't think that's actually apparent, especially insofar as virtually every culture to some degree finds agreement on a range of moral axioms, such as the Golden Rule - that obviously wouldn't disprove the possibility that morality is objective. The very fact that, as you say, morality may be a natural byproduct of higher intelligence, would suggest to me that it is above mere personal preference; that is, there is something intrinsic within certain states of being that even rudimentary forms of reason can recognize as good qua good.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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What is the source for our morals? - by Mechaghostman2 - November 10, 2015 at 7:57 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 8:08 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by abaris - November 10, 2015 at 8:28 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 10, 2015 at 10:46 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Iroscato - November 10, 2015 at 10:54 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by brewer - November 10, 2015 at 10:57 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Faith No More - November 10, 2015 at 10:57 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Chad32 - November 10, 2015 at 11:07 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 12:01 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by JuliaL - November 10, 2015 at 12:03 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 12:10 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by JuliaL - November 10, 2015 at 12:23 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 12:38 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by JuliaL - November 10, 2015 at 12:52 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Athene - November 10, 2015 at 12:47 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Angrboda - November 10, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Mister Agenda - December 7, 2015 at 3:23 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 12:55 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by JuliaL - November 10, 2015 at 1:05 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 9:47 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Cato - November 10, 2015 at 1:22 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 10, 2015 at 1:38 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Longhorn - November 10, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by bennyboy - November 10, 2015 at 8:49 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 11, 2015 at 4:49 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Cato - November 11, 2015 at 10:07 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Whateverist - November 11, 2015 at 5:10 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 11, 2015 at 5:38 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by The Grand Nudger - November 11, 2015 at 5:42 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Whateverist - November 11, 2015 at 5:55 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 11, 2015 at 6:12 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by The Valkyrie - November 11, 2015 at 5:58 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Reforged - November 11, 2015 at 6:03 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by bennyboy - November 11, 2015 at 7:29 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Reforged - November 12, 2015 at 6:04 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Whateverist - November 11, 2015 at 6:20 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by itsjustme141 - November 11, 2015 at 9:32 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Edwardo Piet - November 11, 2015 at 9:58 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 6:11 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by ignoramus - November 12, 2015 at 7:18 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 12, 2015 at 7:28 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by SpecUVdust - November 14, 2015 at 11:06 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by robvalue - November 14, 2015 at 1:02 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 17, 2015 at 4:08 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Athene - November 17, 2015 at 5:04 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Thumpalumpacus - December 6, 2015 at 11:11 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by The Grand Nudger - November 17, 2015 at 5:00 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by ApeNotKillApe - November 17, 2015 at 5:19 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 17, 2015 at 5:41 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by downbeatplumb - November 17, 2015 at 6:10 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 17, 2015 at 6:38 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by downbeatplumb - November 18, 2015 at 1:41 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Edwardo Piet - November 17, 2015 at 11:08 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 18, 2015 at 9:55 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Edwardo Piet - November 18, 2015 at 1:46 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by downbeatplumb - November 18, 2015 at 1:47 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Homeless Nutter - December 6, 2015 at 11:34 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by downbeatplumb - December 7, 2015 at 1:51 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Homeless Nutter - December 6, 2015 at 11:24 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Whateverist - November 18, 2015 at 10:37 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by thool - December 7, 2015 at 8:58 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Mudhammam - December 10, 2015 at 11:43 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by dyresand - December 12, 2015 at 1:02 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by The Grand Nudger - December 12, 2015 at 7:36 am
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Mudhammam - December 12, 2015 at 12:56 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by bennyboy - December 12, 2015 at 2:05 pm
RE: What is the source for our morals? - by Edwardo Piet - December 12, 2015 at 9:10 am

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