(March 16, 2014 at 7:37 pm)LastPoet Wrote:(March 16, 2014 at 7:03 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: LastPoet - examples of axioms. Compassion is good (generally). One should treat their own child with love and care (generally). Knowing the places where justice is applicable and what is too harsh and beyond justice. All these are axioms.
Even our very sense of morality existing is properly basic and innate.
Basic, I can agree, as its basic rules of survival for any species. Innate? No. Our personality is developed since birth and there are examples of those of us that have no moral sense, e.g. psychopaths.
There is plenty of documentation reporting that people that have grown without parental love, have great problems giving love to their offspring.
Without it being innate, our experience of it would not be possible in the first place. When we experience love in real life, we appreciate but also recognize it is good. This recognition of it's goodness is innate.
