(July 2, 2013 at 3:09 pm)Inigo Wrote: I am not denying the evolutionary explanation!! But the evolutionary explanation is an explanation of the development of our moral sense and moral beliefs. And morality is not a sensation or a belief. It is the thing sensed, the thing believed. How many times?Morality IS a belief.
Right now there are things we consider to be moral/immoral. But 10 or 50 or 100 or 1000 or 10000 years from now we may swap those things.
The morals that tend to remain consistent, like randomly killing or hurting others, has a direct physical humanistic reason for remaining consistent.
At no point does it require anything higher than humans for it to be.
Put simply, for the sake of argument if we assume humans are the only animals on this planet with morality and we assume that this planet is the only place in the entire universe with life, if humans disappear morality disappears.
Simple as that.
