Morality is a mess
also 'trolleyology'
Stewart-Williams, Steve. “Evolution and Morality.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080970868810569?via%3Dihub [via Web] [entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.). (2015) ISBN 9780080970875 : Web. ]
2015 was about the year I starting writing down notes about stuff with various thoughts and feelings, about a subject which I would later realise was boxed-in as ‘moral philosophy’. It took ages to realise that. If I had known what I was going to spend so much of my free time on, I would have done some basic research and reading about it (a decade before AI overviews and their sloppy kin). If I had, I would have come across Steve Stewart-Williams and perhaps saved me some time.
This entry in begins “morality is a mess”.
I guess if it was less of a mess I would have known what I was doing.
The entry is an introduction to the subject as far as a more analytic-styled encyclopedic entry will go. Except that opening headliner: “morality is a mess”.
Even Joseph Henrich gets a look in at the end (see my reading of him one and two and three-ish).
Of course I seek to remove that mess by talking about worlding as part of human experience, as much as talking about selfing might remove a blinkered focus on the atomic individual which various social institutions of the individual might provide or inculcate.
Worlding is a part of our human agency, a prosocial outcome in which things like morality, or art, or markets, are outcomes and not things requiring an origin story.
Also Steve Stewart-Williams’ term “trolleyology” !
More at Reactions to papers/books on evolution~morality.
Crossposted whyweshould.loofs-samorzewski.com
I like your definition of the World:“The world is the shadow of the shadow, sinning or otherwise, the world the greater good so many of many of us empathize with in delineating our selfing the world when we world the self. In a prosocial species like ours social learning is a driver, and conspiracies merely one more outcome of the worlding urge that shadows and gives rise to social movements. The world does not care, unless, as they usual are at some point, un-survivable…cults.”It is very
good definition. Social learning really is a driver of the worlding urge.
Selfing the world:"Let the student's soul be instilled with noble curiosity; let him inquire about everything without exception; let him examine everything remarkable he comes across, be it a building, a fountain, a person, an ancient battlefield, or the places where Caesar or Charlemagne passed."/Socrates/