RE: Is morality objective or subjective?
April 26, 2017 at 7:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2017 at 7:27 pm by bennyboy.)
(April 26, 2017 at 5:20 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(April 26, 2017 at 3:47 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Obviously, morality is rooted in the social emotions of our apelike animal nature: we love children, so treating children badly is immoral. We don't like losing resources, so we call stealing of resources immoral.
Grounding morality in evolutionary imperatives would be an example of the genetic fallacy. Being good back in the day doesn't make it good today.
No, you are reading me wrong. I'm not saying we should use the IDEA of evolution as a basis for moral IDEAS. I'm saying that morality is an expression of our evolved humanity, which is objective.
You can see this pretty clearly in very young children. They already have a sense of right and wrong, even before they have the linguistic capacity to understand it-- they know, for example, when someone's being a dick to them, and they definitely do not appreciate it.
