At 7:44 AM -0500 4/7/07, Stuart McKelvie wrote:
Louis asks:
If you do not accept the existence of a divine entity and thus the
validity of a divinely ordained moral code, what is the source or
origin or base or criteria or root for the moral code you do accept
and strive to follow?
Answer:
From the environments to which I have been exposed.
And the codes arose from people's experiences in their environments.
Just simple trial and error and survival of behaviours that led to
outcomes judged to be useful.
I think that is what Skinner meant and I agree with him.
Please, Skinnerians, correct me if I got Skinner wrong!
Pretty close!
Summarizing Skinner is like summarizing the Bible; he wrote many
things over a long period of time.
A synthesis would be history (past experience) plus current
contingencies (demands of current circumstances) plus genetic
predispositions.
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