RE: Morality from the ground up
August 1, 2017 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2017 at 2:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL. I know, I know..I just think it's useful to note that there's no need to build a morality from the ground up..that w already have one, and have always had one. Anytime someone thinks to themselves "oh, look, we have a secular morality now!"..well, no, there was a secular morality five hundred years ago and five thousand. You can find contractarian well being in the vedas, or in the stoics, you can find it in the havamal, you can find it in stories about the great spider or the fox. There has never been a time or a socieity in which we didn't possess a morality that -wasn't- based on superstition but upon the specifics and circumstances of our everyday lives. Sure, for the majority of that time, and even today, they had to live alongside or suffused in superstitious thinking (one of the great values of superstitious thinking has been a s a vehicle for things that are decidedly -not- an issue of superstition)..but it's always been there, with us, within us.
No one is (or needs be) waiting on a great philosopher to come and gift us with a new morality. That work was done before we ever wrote down the first word. Those thinkers of the past were more describing what we do than coming up with a manufactured system.
No one is (or needs be) waiting on a great philosopher to come and gift us with a new morality. That work was done before we ever wrote down the first word. Those thinkers of the past were more describing what we do than coming up with a manufactured system.
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