Morality Before Metaphysics | Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, Joanna Kavenna
Philosophy For Our Times
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Do Unto Others as You Will Be Done Unto?
Do unto others as you would be done unto is pretty well human universal. So that really is the absolute foundation of morality. But then there are all sorts of because we don't have full understanding, there are naturally these inexplicable m further kind of resonances across generations through language. You need to be sceptical about people who claim a particular insight into moral absolutes. They are very, very dangerous. We start by learning our language at our mother's knee. And we also learn how to behave. Most of us some of us don't, but most of us learn how to behaved at our mother’s knee and other low joints. The process is one of socialization.
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