[MD] Science catching up

[Platt Holden]

Quoting Micah <micah at roarkplumbing.com>:

> Platt,
>
> Is the answer Jesus?
>
> Micah

What's the question?

(Platt previously)
> Hi All,
>
> In today's NY Times is a review of a new book by Mark D. Hauser, a
> Harvard
> biologist, entitled "Moral Minds." In it he claims "people are born with
> a
> moral grammar wired into their neural circuits by evolution." He argues
> that grammar "generates instant moral judgments which . . . are
> inaccessible to the conscious mind."
>
> In other words, Pirsig's morality of direct experience prior to
> intellectual conceptions.
>
> Of course like most people today, Hauser limits moral decisions to human
> societies, attributing our moral instinct to "restraints on behavior are
> required by social living and have been favored by natural selection
> because of their survival value." Maybe at some future time scientists
> and
> others will escape from the language prison of social morality to
> understand that right and wrong are not exclusively the province of
> human
> society, but the creative force behind the world's order.
>
> But, don't hold your breath.

Platt