Marcus, I would be very interested in Knut's "meta"-reaction to the piece linked below, only in part because it took about 4 years to write, and I was wondering if I will have another 8 to go: "Why we should : an introduction by memoir into the implications of the Egalitarian Revolution of the Paleolithic, or, Anyone for cake?" Abstract attempted thus: It argues that normative impulses to "should" are worldbuilding and thus give survival value to people who are thus organised by the discussion that they work in, compared to those who are not so shouldly organised. Here "discussion" as the otherside of the coin to "argument". This moral urge or worldbuilding urge is more important "in itself" than any detail of morality which are thus mere outcomes of social process, and thus can vary over time & geography, like any arbitrary fashion. https://www.academia.edu/40978261/Why_we_should_an_introduction_by_memoir_into_the_implications_of_the_Egalitarian_Revolution_of_the_Paleolithic_or_Anyone_for_cake
The imperative is a drive, the moral urge itself has no morality, even if we would like it too (moral imperatives etc). I feel this position falls outside the known categories used in metaethics, but I am not a scholar but a mere librarian.
Marcus, I would be very interested in Knut's "meta"-reaction to the piece linked below, only in part because it took about 4 years to write, and I was wondering if I will have another 8 to go: "Why we should : an introduction by memoir into the implications of the Egalitarian Revolution of the Paleolithic, or, Anyone for cake?" Abstract attempted thus: It argues that normative impulses to "should" are worldbuilding and thus give survival value to people who are thus organised by the discussion that they work in, compared to those who are not so shouldly organised. Here "discussion" as the otherside of the coin to "argument". This moral urge or worldbuilding urge is more important "in itself" than any detail of morality which are thus mere outcomes of social process, and thus can vary over time & geography, like any arbitrary fashion. https://www.academia.edu/40978261/Why_we_should_an_introduction_by_memoir_into_the_implications_of_the_Egalitarian_Revolution_of_the_Paleolithic_or_Anyone_for_cake
The imperative is a drive, the moral urge itself has no morality, even if we would like it too (moral imperatives etc). I feel this position falls outside the known categories used in metaethics, but I am not a scholar but a mere librarian.