Post by Josh on Feb 19, 2007 7:46:05 GMT -8
6/2/06:
Each of these 4 definitions of morality has it's place, but none fully express it, not even when put together. If all of these could define morality completely, then you would have a case. But they don’t. Animals have herd instinct, yet they don't wrestle with morality.
We are taught right and wrong, yes, but we don't always agree with what we've been taught, so morality isn't just in what we've been taught. Morality is usually pragmatic, but we all have experienced times when 'our heart told us' something was wrong even when it seems so right, and morality is often an instrument of power, but that's not a definition of morality, that's a way morality is used.
We are moral beings; it's in our nature. We stand out like sore thumbs in the known universe and no amount of explaining away will make it more palatable.
Josh
Each of these 4 definitions of morality has it's place, but none fully express it, not even when put together. If all of these could define morality completely, then you would have a case. But they don’t. Animals have herd instinct, yet they don't wrestle with morality.
We are taught right and wrong, yes, but we don't always agree with what we've been taught, so morality isn't just in what we've been taught. Morality is usually pragmatic, but we all have experienced times when 'our heart told us' something was wrong even when it seems so right, and morality is often an instrument of power, but that's not a definition of morality, that's a way morality is used.
We are moral beings; it's in our nature. We stand out like sore thumbs in the known universe and no amount of explaining away will make it more palatable.
Josh