Why Do Human Beings Feel Guilty?

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Why would anybody feel guilty about anything? What's the purpose of having a moral emotion where you get a squirt of some horm oner or other from hypothalamis and that, and that effects your neural net works and makes you feel guilty? And and then you express your guilt to the people you've harmed, and so hopefully they forgive you. You know, i am at this point, and i'm always open to revising my views, but ot this point, i'm not confident that we're going to be able to have a a scientific explanation for moral motions like guilt.

In their book Science and the Good, professional philosophers James Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The conversation takes a decidedly interesting turn when Drs. Hunter and Nedelisky reveal that they are both theists and that their Christian worldview informs their thinking on moral issues. The three then dig into the weeds of the difference between religious and secular moral systems, the nature of God and morality, why a purely naturalistic approach to morality does not negate religion or even the existence of God (natural law could be God’s way of creating moral values), natural rights and rights theory, consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, progress in philosophy, why philosophers never seem to reach consensus on important subjects like morality, how to think about issues like abortion, why they believe in God and follow the Christian religion and yet reject Divine Command Theory, and much more.