Language allows us to acquire knowledge of that which existed in it's entirety prior to our naming it. Some of those things are themselves existentially dependent upon language use.
Sure people my say we learn it from a deity but some of them (if they were really) don't seem to care about human life. — hachit
Sure people my say we learn it from a deity but some of them (if they were really) don't seem to care about human life.
β hachit
...and maybe some deities care about all life. Their purpose is to nurture life, not to nurture humans at the expense of all other life. Wouldn't that make more sense? :chin: — Pattern-chaser
I haven't read most of what creativesoul wrote. What would you succinctly say that he gives as the source of morals? — Terrapin Station
Oh look. My fan club has arrived. — creativesoul
This discussion sharply went downhill when it began to be filled with insanely repetitive gibberish about "thought/belief" and the like. — S
Trueand maybe some deities care about all life. Maybe their purpose is to nurture life, not to nurture humans at the expense of all other life? Wouldn't that make more sense?
He could explain himself better. — Merkwurdichliebe
internalization of morality — Merkwurdichliebe
What would that one be? How could you internalize morality (where presumably it wasn't something internal prior)? — Terrapin Station
How could you internalize morality (where presumably it wasn't something internal prior)? — Terrapin Station
How could you internalize morality (where presumably it wasn't something internal prior)?
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Practice. Or perhaps a whip? — praxis
Practice. Or perhaps a whip? — praxis
At this stage we pressuppose everything involved in prelinguistic thought/belief. — Merkwurdichliebe
Thought/belief are already internal. — Terrapin Station
We've already established that evaluations of prelinguistic assessments are primarily acquired from an external source. — Merkwurdichliebe
This does not mean thought/belief cannot be affected by something external. — Merkwurdichliebe
The problem is that morality never occurs as anything other than something internal. — Terrapin Station
So my morality is internal to you? — praxis
So then only you have morality, I suppose. — Merkwurdichliebe
How would you possibly prove that another has morality by referring to "utterances a la sounds/marks etc." — Merkwurdichliebe
How are we attempting to have discussions of the caliber that we're attempting to have in threads like this when we haven't even learned that empirical claims aren't provable, period — Terrapin Station
"X has/doesn't have morality" is an empirical claim. — Terrapin Station
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