RE: Morality
January 22, 2019 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2019 at 10:16 am by Acrobat.)
(January 22, 2019 at 9:41 am)Brian37 Wrote: Plato didn't invent morality either.
No one said he did.
Quote:[/quote]Quote:Quote Acrobat, "It’s not about what’s right and wrong, as much as it is about what ultimately the root of right and wrong."
Nature, evolution, not Superman vs Lex Luther, not Yoda vs Darth Vader, not God vs Satan.
Evolution underlies the various mechanical components, of all our behaviors and inclinations, including those underlying immoral behavior, such scapegoating, greed, selfishness, delusions, etc....
Morality while relying on some of these components, is also a belief system, even if vaguely formed. It's beliefs in moral obligations and duties. My evolutionary sourced feeling and urges, might lead me to steal your wallet, but it's my moral belief, that define it as wrong, as something I ought not to do, not evolution, which at best is series of sensations governing our behaviors, not reducible to beliefs themselves.
Quote:I do not need any claim of the super natural to have empathy for others, or to figure out that if I don't want to be physically harmed, or have my shit stolen, maybe it's not a good idea to do that to others.
Or in other words, "I don't like the feeling of being harmed, I also don't like the feeling of others being harmed either, as a result of my empathy." In such statements you're just expressing to me your personal feelings, and not a moral claim at all. A belief that empathy, compassion is authoritative, as placing obligation on not just your behavior, but the behaviors of others, might be. Love becomes God like.
Quote:I am sorry someone sold you the idea that magic is the root cause of human behaviors, good or bad, but there is nothing magic, and no super natural cognition needed to explain why humans do good or bad.
I'm sorry you spend most of your post strawmanning people, and attributing to them beliefs they don't hold. I don't believe magic is the root cause of human behaviors, good or bad, I don't believe in magic, I don't even know what supernatural cognition means, for you to suggest that I believe it either.