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Morality in Nature
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RE: Morality in Nature
(September 23, 2013 at 11:14 pm)genkaus Wrote:
(September 23, 2013 at 8:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If the only basis of morality in nature comes from survival of the fittest and "might makes right" then it's not really any kind of morality at all. Welcome to naturalism.

Even if the only basis of morality in nature was from survival of the fittest and "might makes right" - which is most emphatically not the case - it'd still be a kind of morality.

I suspect you mean in the sense that the feeling of must or must not in human morality probably is built on something instinctual. No doubt these inhibitive impulses have been fine tuned by nature through evolution in pro-social directions for the most part. All the rationalizing and systematizing of course come in secondarily.
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Morality in Nature - by Jiggerj - September 23, 2013 at 4:17 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Silver - September 23, 2013 at 4:22 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Jiggerj - September 23, 2013 at 4:28 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Rahul - September 23, 2013 at 4:55 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Mystical - September 24, 2013 at 11:38 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Rahul - September 23, 2013 at 4:27 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Captain Colostomy - September 23, 2013 at 5:02 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Jiggerj - September 23, 2013 at 8:20 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Rahul - September 23, 2013 at 10:23 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Neo-Scholastic - September 23, 2013 at 8:30 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by MindForgedManacle - September 23, 2013 at 11:09 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 23, 2013 at 11:14 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Neo-Scholastic - September 24, 2013 at 7:46 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Esquilax - September 24, 2013 at 8:14 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by freedomfromforum - September 24, 2013 at 12:32 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by max-greece - September 24, 2013 at 12:33 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by freedomfromforum - September 24, 2013 at 12:46 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 24, 2013 at 6:46 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Jiggerj - September 24, 2013 at 6:50 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Dunno - September 24, 2013 at 6:54 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 24, 2013 at 7:14 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Whateverist - September 24, 2013 at 10:33 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 24, 2013 at 6:50 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Whateverist - September 24, 2013 at 7:24 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 24, 2013 at 8:41 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Whateverist - September 24, 2013 at 9:03 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 27, 2013 at 8:30 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 28, 2013 at 7:26 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 28, 2013 at 9:29 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 29, 2013 at 1:46 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 29, 2013 at 2:30 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 29, 2013 at 5:01 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 29, 2013 at 10:16 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 29, 2013 at 12:04 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 29, 2013 at 1:56 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 29, 2013 at 6:56 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 29, 2013 at 10:42 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 29, 2013 at 11:35 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 30, 2013 at 12:19 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 30, 2013 at 3:06 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 30, 2013 at 10:09 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Whateverist - September 28, 2013 at 10:05 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 28, 2013 at 10:21 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by max-greece - September 24, 2013 at 5:09 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Simon Moon - September 24, 2013 at 11:41 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Dunno - September 24, 2013 at 6:49 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Whateverist - September 23, 2013 at 8:33 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by gilbertc06 - September 24, 2013 at 4:46 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 24, 2013 at 5:55 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Dunno - September 24, 2013 at 12:35 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Darwinian - September 24, 2013 at 2:02 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Neo-Scholastic - September 25, 2013 at 8:32 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Esquilax - September 25, 2013 at 8:55 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Neo-Scholastic - September 25, 2013 at 7:42 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by Whateverist - September 28, 2013 at 11:12 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - September 28, 2013 at 11:13 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by max-greece - September 30, 2013 at 3:42 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 30, 2013 at 4:46 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by max-greece - September 30, 2013 at 10:34 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Neo-Scholastic - September 30, 2013 at 9:13 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - September 30, 2013 at 10:11 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Walking Void - September 30, 2013 at 9:54 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Lumpymunk - September 30, 2013 at 11:34 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 1, 2013 at 12:34 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 1, 2013 at 2:09 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 1, 2013 at 3:09 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 1, 2013 at 3:36 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 1, 2013 at 7:19 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 1, 2013 at 9:38 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 1, 2013 at 10:01 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 2, 2013 at 1:16 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 2, 2013 at 3:02 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 2, 2013 at 3:10 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 2, 2013 at 3:39 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 2, 2013 at 3:44 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 2, 2013 at 8:08 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 2, 2013 at 9:36 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 2, 2013 at 11:13 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 2, 2013 at 9:38 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 2, 2013 at 10:07 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 2, 2013 at 10:16 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 2, 2013 at 10:29 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 2, 2013 at 10:51 pm
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 3, 2013 at 4:31 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 3, 2013 at 5:57 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 3, 2013 at 7:18 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 3, 2013 at 7:36 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by bennyboy - October 3, 2013 at 10:30 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by genkaus - October 4, 2013 at 2:04 am
RE: Morality in Nature - by Angrboda - October 3, 2013 at 1:54 pm

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