[MD] Is morality Hard Wired?

[David M]

Hi Micah


but doing things by nature
> (abdication of choice) is biological quality

Instinct I guess

, doing things by convention
> (the choice of others) is social quality

not instinct, but social convention, culture, knowing
what others expect in terms of behaviour -requires langauge, culture, ritual


, and doing things by your own
> reasoned choice is intellectual quality because it involves the intellect 
> in
> the construction of the self.

the individual as we know it emerges in the west, why in the west?

DM