
Making Sense of Foundations of Morality
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The Relationship Between Scientific Progress and Morality
It's difficult to weigh just how much of a role the advent of agricultural techniques played in the convenient moral awakening about the wrongness of child sacrifice. This suggests an interesting relationship where invention and scientific knowledge could contain within it the necessary conditions for moral growth and progress. The famous is odd distinction gets even more complicated in this picture. If you happen to be the kind of person who just hates the taste of meat and therefore you abstain from eating it is this worth less morally than someone who adores the taste ofmeat but thinks it's morally wrong to consume it? That final conversation hints at another fascinating area of moral analysis called mechanical invention.
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