(June 6, 2012 at 6:17 pm)Annik Wrote:(June 6, 2012 at 5:57 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Ok, I see what your saying. You think society decides morals because it's moral or is it moral because society decided it's moral?
Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg%27...evelopment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget...f_morality
Here is some insight into moral development. Cultures decide morals more than society on the whole. The morals in the US are different from the morals in the UK, just as the morals in the UK are different from morals in Japan.
So which one of the two is it?
Societies decides morals because they are morals or are they morals because society decided them to be morals?
I think it's neither. I think some of societies decisions reflect morals as they ought to be, and some don't. But this only possible with the view that morals are not just social cues.