RE: Evolution cannot account for morality
May 28, 2022 at 8:56 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2022 at 9:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It could have been a creation of social dynamics …,sure. Like just about everything else. Science- a creation of social dynamics. Cars, planes, trains and trucks…all of it.
I don’t think that means anything in particular beyond the boilerplate stuff of us needing to think carefully if we intend for it to be anything -other- than social dynamics.
No moral objectivist believes that morality comes from biological evolution, nor does any moral relativist. Though all moral theories are comfortable with the organ we use to assess and make moral assertions being a product of evolution…and all moral theories involve some interest.
No, I don’t see anything g weird about biological evolution only applying to life. It’s a very specific theory. Why and how would mountains evolve, for example, by descent with modification through genetic means…and then winnowed by variable survival rates?
You can use the term evolution generally…and people do think that there’s something like chemical evolution- but it’s not the same underlying theory or referring to the same specific thing.
I also dont see anything odd about the existence of facts. If states of affairs exist and can be accurately described…there are facts. If, in short, anything at all is knowable, then there are facts. Do you know your own name? Is it somehow funny or odd that you do?
I don’t think that means anything in particular beyond the boilerplate stuff of us needing to think carefully if we intend for it to be anything -other- than social dynamics.
No moral objectivist believes that morality comes from biological evolution, nor does any moral relativist. Though all moral theories are comfortable with the organ we use to assess and make moral assertions being a product of evolution…and all moral theories involve some interest.
No, I don’t see anything g weird about biological evolution only applying to life. It’s a very specific theory. Why and how would mountains evolve, for example, by descent with modification through genetic means…and then winnowed by variable survival rates?
You can use the term evolution generally…and people do think that there’s something like chemical evolution- but it’s not the same underlying theory or referring to the same specific thing.
I also dont see anything odd about the existence of facts. If states of affairs exist and can be accurately described…there are facts. If, in short, anything at all is knowable, then there are facts. Do you know your own name? Is it somehow funny or odd that you do?
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