RE: In Defense of a Non-Natural Moral Order
August 25, 2019 at 10:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2019 at 10:44 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I mean exactly what I say. There’s nothing specific about our capacity for reasoning. The brain is capable of handling abstraction and manipulating symbols.
This makes it suitable for a wide range of problem solving, and the fact that some things fall in that range is completely unsurprising.
Some things would. OFC we would have preferences within that range.
There’s nothing, at all, in any of your reference material that supports the content of your posts. Only the observation that within that range, some types of moral problems conform to the framework of human contemplation better than others, in some cohort.
Again, ofc they would, but.....,.?
OTOH, we know.....know....that human beings haven’t always acted or thought the way we do now, and we know.....know.....that we were still coming up with vocab to even discuss the issue as little as a few thousand years ago.
Even if we placed the dawn of moral reasoning sometime between then and behavioral modernity, we’d still be short 100k, at least, on anatomical modernity. Do we think that all social animals have something functionally similar to a morality, yeah...sort of. We draw a line, and it may be a difference of degree rather than kind but it’s probably a good distinction. At least until we find something as conceptually ornate in some other species.
-and that state, is the state we expect humans to have been in from some time before full modernity.
This makes it suitable for a wide range of problem solving, and the fact that some things fall in that range is completely unsurprising.
Some things would. OFC we would have preferences within that range.
There’s nothing, at all, in any of your reference material that supports the content of your posts. Only the observation that within that range, some types of moral problems conform to the framework of human contemplation better than others, in some cohort.
Again, ofc they would, but.....,.?
OTOH, we know.....know....that human beings haven’t always acted or thought the way we do now, and we know.....know.....that we were still coming up with vocab to even discuss the issue as little as a few thousand years ago.
Even if we placed the dawn of moral reasoning sometime between then and behavioral modernity, we’d still be short 100k, at least, on anatomical modernity. Do we think that all social animals have something functionally similar to a morality, yeah...sort of. We draw a line, and it may be a difference of degree rather than kind but it’s probably a good distinction. At least until we find something as conceptually ornate in some other species.
-and that state, is the state we expect humans to have been in from some time before full modernity.
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