Hypersonic
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Morality is a human construct based on underlying biological and evolutionary motives such as collective fitness, security, division of labor, etc. It is not static. As for slavery, it is alive and well, and will be until mankind ceases to exist.In this thread I am mostly referring to ethical intuitionalism, mostly concerning whether there are objective facts of morality. I guess my most basic case would be to look at slavery. How does one concede some rational intuition of morality when slavery was an acceptable way of life previously in early human history? Is the idea of morality something progressive and continuously changing, or is it something that is merely static?
Morality is a human construct based on underlying biological and evolutionary motives such as collective fitness, security, division of labor, etc. It is not static. As for slavery, it is alive and well, and will be until mankind ceases to exist.
During the "great religous awakening" of the early 1800s people in the US started believing slavery was "un-christian". But the abolutionist movement actually started in England in the late 1700s and spread to the US.Then how did American society get to a point where people attribute slavery to something that is immoral?
In this thread I am mostly referring to ethical intuitionalism, mostly concerning whether there are objective facts of morality. I guess my most basic case would be to look at slavery. How does one concede some rational intuition of morality when slavery was an acceptable way of life previously in early human history? Is the idea of morality something progressive and continuously changing, or is it something that is merely static?
In this thread I am mostly referring to ethical intuitionalism, mostly concerning whether there are objective facts of morality. I guess my most basic case would be to look at slavery. How does one concede some rational intuition of morality when slavery was an acceptable way of life previously in early human history? Is the idea of morality something progressive and continuously changing, or is it something that is merely static?
In this thread I am mostly referring to ethical intuitionalism, mostly concerning whether there are objective facts of morality. I guess my most basic case would be to look at slavery. How does one concede some rational intuition of morality when slavery was an acceptable way of life previously in early human history? Is the idea of morality something progressive and continuously changing, or is it something that is merely static?
In this thread I am mostly referring to ethical intuitionalism, mostly concerning whether there are objective facts of morality. I guess my most basic case would be to look at slavery. How does one concede some rational intuition of morality when slavery was an acceptable way of life previously in early human history? Is the idea of morality something progressive and continuously changing, or is it something that is merely static?
In our case, civil war.Then how did American society get to a point where people attribute slavery to something that is immoral?
In this thread I am mostly referring to ethical intuitionalism, mostly concerning whether there are objective facts of morality. I guess my most basic case would be to look at slavery. How does one concede some rational intuition of morality when slavery was an acceptable way of life previously in early human history? Is the idea of morality something progressive and continuously changing, or is it something that is merely static?
True morality begins with self-knowledge, extrapolated in such a way as to extend the same considerations to others as one might wish for themself. It's that old "do unto others".
Children of the members of Westboro Baptist Church, in my opinion, have been indoctrinated into a vile way of thinking; therefore, from what are they to extrapolate a different teaching?
I haven't the faintest idea what you are asking.
Obviously, the children of the Westboro Babtist nut jobs are being indoctrinated, but what does that have to do with self-knowledge?
Where is their self-knowledge?
Self-knowledge is an innate ability. THe indoctrination can mask it and it can suppress the natural prediliction thereof, but it does not prevent it.
We are more than programmable automatons, even if far too many give an impression of little else.
In this thread I am mostly referring to ethical intuitionalism, mostly concerning whether there are objective facts of morality. I guess my most basic case would be to look at slavery. How does one concede some rational intuition of morality when slavery was an acceptable way of life previously in early human history? Is the idea of morality something progressive and continuously changing, or is it something that is merely static?
Self-knowledge is an innate ability. THe indoctrination can mask it and it can suppress the natural prediliction thereof, but it does not prevent it.
We are more than programmable automatons, even if far too many give an impression of little else.
In this thread I am mostly referring to ethical intuitionalism, mostly concerning whether there are objective facts of morality. I guess my most basic case would be to look at slavery. How does one concede some rational intuition of morality when slavery was an acceptable way of life previously in early human history? Is the idea of morality something progressive and continuously changing, or is it something that is merely static?
How did we believe the earth was flat for so long? We were simply ignorant of the facts. Ethics is less of a hard science than that, sure, but that's largely because of our lack of knowledge/technology to bridge the gap.
Start with yourself in the most primitive scenario that makes sense. What makes something right, or wrong, to you?
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