(September 24, 2013 at 10:33 am)whateverist Wrote: 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.
No, I don't. Most certainly not.
What I mean is that one may have an instinctual sense of "must or must not" - but this instinctual sense does not qualify for human morality. However, we can build a code of behavior based on these instincts and that would qualify as morality. Or we can ignore them altogether and build it on something else altogether. It is the rationalization and systematization that gives rise to morality - not the existence of instincts.
