NeoGeo
Legacy Member
Morality is the natural outcome of evolutionary and historical forces, not divine command.
The moral feelings of doing the right thing (such as virtuousness) or doing the wrong thing (such as guilt) were generated by nature as part of human evolution. Although cultures differ on what they define as right and wrong, the moral feelings of doing the right or the wrong thing are universal to all humans. Human universals are pervasive and powerful and include at their core the fact that we are by nature moral and immoral, good and evil, altruistic and selfish, cooperative and competitive, peaceful and bellicose, virtuous and nonvirtuous. Individuals and groups vary in the expression of such universal traits, but everyone has them.
=> Morality evolved as an adaptive trait of humans and human communities
Dit is althans de mening van Michael Shermer (uitgever van het magazine Skeptic, columnist voor Scientific American en auteur van The Science Of Good And Evil).
Las toevallig vandaag een boek waar dit in stond en het sluit aan bij wat UniversalWeapon zegt, al weet ik niet wat hij juist bedoelde met het ingebakken zijn van normen en waarden. Hij gaf wat weinig uitleg...
Wat meer over de rol van religie, omdat de thread tenslotte 'Geloof' heet:
At some point in the last 10,000 years (most likely around the time of the advent of writing and the shift from bands and tribes to chiefdoms and states some 5,000 years ago) religions began to codify moral precepts into moral codes and political states began to codify moral precepts into legal codes.
The moral feelings of doing the right thing (such as virtuousness) or doing the wrong thing (such as guilt) were generated by nature as part of human evolution. Although cultures differ on what they define as right and wrong, the moral feelings of doing the right or the wrong thing are universal to all humans. Human universals are pervasive and powerful and include at their core the fact that we are by nature moral and immoral, good and evil, altruistic and selfish, cooperative and competitive, peaceful and bellicose, virtuous and nonvirtuous. Individuals and groups vary in the expression of such universal traits, but everyone has them.
=> Morality evolved as an adaptive trait of humans and human communities
Dit is althans de mening van Michael Shermer (uitgever van het magazine Skeptic, columnist voor Scientific American en auteur van The Science Of Good And Evil).
Las toevallig vandaag een boek waar dit in stond en het sluit aan bij wat UniversalWeapon zegt, al weet ik niet wat hij juist bedoelde met het ingebakken zijn van normen en waarden. Hij gaf wat weinig uitleg...
Wat meer over de rol van religie, omdat de thread tenslotte 'Geloof' heet:
At some point in the last 10,000 years (most likely around the time of the advent of writing and the shift from bands and tribes to chiefdoms and states some 5,000 years ago) religions began to codify moral precepts into moral codes and political states began to codify moral precepts into legal codes.


