06.18.08
Morality before the great religions
Can we blame our modern ills on the fact that we’ve abandoned some or other god? Surely not?
Brilliant: but exactly how did morality evolve?
Let’s whip out the timeline. If modern humans are about 150 000 years old, give or take a few millennia, there has to have been a moral code by which we lived before the suite of modern god options came about in the past few thousand years.
The “decay” of the modern world can’t possibly be because we don’t all now subscribe to one particular belief system, when there are a whole lot of useful ones out there, including humanism, which is steeped in morality.
Surely, the principle of “do unto others” goes back as far as the caveman?
James said,
June 18, 2008 at 3:18 pm
“Brilliant: but exactly how did morality evolve?”
Clearly you haven’t read the work of E.O. Wilson and W.D. Hamilton.