RE: Morality without God
April 1, 2021 at 8:01 am
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2021 at 8:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's not the way that you think or we think it's supposed to work. That probably is the way that it works in practice. Civilizing the natives, for example, was seen as a good deed. What civilizer wouldn't want to be saved and civilized?
At the level of quick intuition or empathy, it's petty much true by definition that we center our self - that we're engaging in a subjective appraisal. When we consider the other though, as themselves, not the other as ourselves - that's a "higher level" analysis of an object - the other person.
I think that subjectivist maxims find their way into our moral shorthand because they're compelling to self and simpler to perform. We're palpably built for it. The gods, in their infinite wisdom, could have told us anything. Could have given us the blueprint to the moral machine they allegedly created or understand. Instead they tell us to do the moral equivalent of stress eating. Good for them. What's next on the list if that doesn't work? Flash my display feathers and gurgle menacingly?
...well...as luck would have it, yup.
At the level of quick intuition or empathy, it's petty much true by definition that we center our self - that we're engaging in a subjective appraisal. When we consider the other though, as themselves, not the other as ourselves - that's a "higher level" analysis of an object - the other person.
I think that subjectivist maxims find their way into our moral shorthand because they're compelling to self and simpler to perform. We're palpably built for it. The gods, in their infinite wisdom, could have told us anything. Could have given us the blueprint to the moral machine they allegedly created or understand. Instead they tell us to do the moral equivalent of stress eating. Good for them. What's next on the list if that doesn't work? Flash my display feathers and gurgle menacingly?
...well...as luck would have it, yup.
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