Tag: moral values

The origins of morality, the glue that binds human societies

April 9, 2015 benign0 7 Comments

Jumping off from Hector Gamboa’s excellent piece Evolution-based Morality? Don’t Pick Up the Soap!, I thought I’d share my own readings on the controversial subject of the origins of morality. In his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt makes a case for the way morality arose…

Civics, Culture, Development, Religion, Society

Evolution-based Morality? Don’t Pick Up the Soap!

April 9, 2015 Hector Gamboa 12 Comments

So it appears that my last post has struck a nerve amongst a few readers, whom I suspect are atheists. That’s not really surprising as I have encountered so many atheists in the past who account morality to evolution. For these folks, at least the ones I have encountered, they do not subscribe to universal…

Religion, Science

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