(September 7, 2013 at 9:00 am)Chas Wrote: We're talking about the solitary person. From whence cometh his morality except from himself?
Is that all you meant by "personal, functional morality"?
Because it can come in quite a few ways.
- He could find a book of moral instructions.
- He could base it on his life before the island.
- He could come up with all sorts of imaginative constructs and base his morality on that.
- He could observe the nature around him and come up with a morality based on that.
- Or he could come up with a morality based on certain philosophical reflections.