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Tuesday, 17 April, 07:04, wealth.livejournal.com
Интересная книга Патриции Черчленд- известного профессора философии: Braintrust - What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality

Morality seems to me to be a natural phenomenon—constrained by the forces of natural selection, rooted in neurobiology, shaped by the local ecology, and modified by cultural developments. Nevertheless, fairness requires me to acknowledge that this sort of naturalistic approach to morality has often seemed insensitive to metaphysical ideas about morality, such as that morality is essentially dependent on a supernatural source of moral information and moral worth.


Всем интересующимся, а так же анонимным философам и в первую очередь ведущим радио-программ на безымянном религиозном радио, крайне рекомендую почитать. В интернете книгу найти довольно просто, кстати сказать.

On my hypothesis regarding the neural basis of moral behavior, morality is as real as can be—it is as real as social behavior. Actual human moral behavior, in all its glory and complexity, should not be cheap- ened by the false dilemma: either God secures the moral law or morality is an illusion. It is a false dilemma because morality can be—and I argue, is—grounded in our biology, in our capacity for compassion and our ability to learn and figure things out. As a matter of actual fact, some social practices are better than others, some institutions are worse than others, and genuine assessments can be made against the standard of how well or poorly they serve human well-being. Allowing women to vote has, despite dire predictions of disaster, turned out reasonably well, whereas the laws allowing private citizens to own assault weapons in the United States has had quite a lot of deleterious consequences. Abolition of slavery, though a fairly recent development, is surely, as a matter of the facts of well-being, better than slavery. That some one or other may disagree on various matters does not entail that without God, all is mere opinion.
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