Does anyone remember the day when as (say) a 5-year old you suddenly gasped and said, Behold, Murder is Wrontg!
Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:38 AM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The struggle to be equal to the rich in history as a history of class struggles is a human natural and therefore natural moral law by inference from its empirical universality. "Carrol Cox" <[email protected]> wrote > Morality is a set of ideas, and thus ethical principles are > subordinate to and flow from the practice which exists prior to any ethical > ideas. > Hence those ideas cannot be used to determine the practice from which they > flow. Morality and ethics are almost synonyms, at least for the sake of this discussion. Ideas are expressed as statements in a language and so moral principles are statements that are weak constraints on human behaviour. Let's term a collection of moral principles as a morality advocated by a group for the benefit of the group. So there are many different moralities that have advantages and disadvantages which we can compare. Because moralities are weak constraints on individual behaviour, groups turn them into laws with punishments for failure to comply. There are some problems discussing moral principles because some feel that moral principles are innate features of being human. That seems mystical to me and that moral principles should be susceptible to criticism. -- Ron _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
