John Mikes writes:
Stathis,
your 'augmentded' ethical maxim is excellent, I could add some more 'except
foe'-s to it.
(lower class, cast, or wealth, - language, - gender, etc.)
The last par, however, is prone to a more serious remark of mine:
topics like you sampled are culture related
Bruno marchal writes:
Even if it is presented as good for society, the child may accept that
because of feelings of empathy for others.
OK. Note that such an empathy is hard wired in our biological
constitution. Many mammals seems to have it at some degree. Some form
of autism are
John Mikes wrote:
Brent:
let me start at the end:
So why don't you believe it?
because I am prejudiced by the brainwashing I got in 101 science education,
the 'conventional' thinking of the (ongoing) science establishment - still
brainwashing the upcoming scientist-generations with the same
Brent:
Brent:
It seems your answer is that it's just a convention that you happen to have
learned - a mere artifact of culture as propounded by various
post-modernists.
JM:
In our culture and its predecessors primitive observations led to
explanations at the level of the then epistemic cognitive
Mark Peaty writes:
Sorry to be so slow at responding here but life [domestic], the universe and
everything else right now is competing savagely with this interesting
discussion. [But one must always think positive; 'Bah, Humbug!' is not
appropriate, even though the temptation is great
Brent Meeker writes:
[Mark Peaty]
From the foregoing it can be seen that while there can be no objective
morality, nor any absolute morality, it is reasonable to expect
increasing agreement on the relative morality of actions within an
expanding context. Further, similar to the entropic
Oops, it was Jef Allbright, not Mark Peaty responsible for the first quote
below.
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Brent Meeker writes:
[Mark Peaty]
Peter Jones writes:
(1) Although moral assessment is inherently subjective--being relative
to internal values--all rational agents share some values in common due
to sharing a common evolutionary heritage or even more fundamentally,
being subject to the same physical laws of the
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Brent Meeker writes:
[Mark Peaty]
From the foregoing it can be seen that while there can be no objective
morality, nor any absolute morality, it is reasonable to expect
increasing agreement on the relative morality of actions within an
expanding context.
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