Thursday, August 17, 2017
How Is Is Ought
I don't think the
"naturalistic fallacy" is a fallacy. The natural state of
the world does cohere with the moral state of goodness and health.
"Is" does usually mean "ought." If you try to
move away from real human nature in the cultures you create it
becomes bad because it makes both you and the culture disharmonious
with what you actually are and what your genetic traits relate to. If
you create a culture designed for parrots it wont work well for
humans and it is therefore bad for humans. The task of course is in
defining human nature. Science and religion don't always define human
nature the same way, which has caused conflicts between them for
centuries.
Fortunately there is
much knowledge regarding real human nature mainly from the
sociobiological sciences descended at least from Darwin to
E.O.Wilson, which can also be seen in many human cultural traditions.
Here we find that across human history to this day human nature has
been kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and
religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the
primary unit of
successful selection, followed by
individual selection. Cultures can operate for a time with behavior
that goes against real human nature, with such experiments as
Marxism, but the culture is always eventually pulled back by the
biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that
better reflect real human nature, within the environments humans find
themselves living within.
So we ought
to create cultures that reflect what human nature really is,
and that it is good, and when we do not that is bad. This can be
seen and proved as true..If we want to gradually try to change human nature through
evolution and culture that is another subject.
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