Why do we want to be good? | Ece Temelkuran, Alison Milbank, Peter Sjöstedt-H
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Absolute Fundamental Importance of Grounding
We have evolved many contrary characteristics of humans, including greed and envy. To say that evolution has fostered our morality is already to assume a morality in order to identify those characteristics. Just because something might be the case doesn't mean one ought to follow it. And i think that violence is also part of humanity, and thus explains the wars we face. But my pessimistic view, in the way, is that there'll always be war,. There'll always be conflicts, unfortunately. And we can have temporary solutions, but ultimately, this is our path.
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