PHIL-250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Kantian Ethics, Habituation
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English psychologists are the only ones who have attempted to write a history for the emergence of morality [10]. These people are interesting in what they want: try to account for morality in some way, usually through the evolution of the brain (evolutionary biology; the selfish gene, morality as a promotion of the existence of a species) The e(cid:374)glish (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:271)e looki(cid:374)g for (cid:373)oralit(cid:455)(cid:859)s origi(cid:374)s i(cid:374) the (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g pla(cid:272)e (cid:894)ie the hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:373)i(cid:374)d,(cid:271)iologi(cid:272)all(cid:455) determined, may be partly instinct), but at least they recognize the aposteriori and somewhat uncontrolled (chance/accident) method of morality arising. There has always been the assumption that humans were between god and beast, insofar as we have both desire and reason, morality [gods] and instinct [animals], body[animals] and soul [god]. But morality, soul and reason could all be rooted in instinct rather than active choice [morality and reason is instinct, not something we strive towards]
