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    This document discusses the nature of morality and whether it is innate. It raises several questions: 1) What is morality and how is it different from choices and behaviors which can be influenced by other factors like power, self-preservation and hunger? 2) How can morality be innate given the "poverty of stimulus" in early development? 3) Does an innate moral sense make us good, or is it just one aspect that contributes to choices and behaviors which still need rational examination? 4) The document considers different views on the nature and development of moral systems, including potential for both moral progress and regression over time and across cultures.

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    Linguistic analogy of moral cognition.

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    30 June.

    Is There "Morality".

    Intuitive system ("basis" UMG to "comptetant state" - �procedural knowledge� not


    �declarative knowledge� S1,
    Unconscious, gives Ought, judgement) - Values (not absolutes, close to it) -
    Chooices, Behavior.
    MIS - Has no one-on-one connection to values and choices. Entres in power,
    ideology.

    Mark Hauser.
    Mikhail.
    Chomsky. - Analogous to FL, aesthetic, musical judgment and innate primes,
    euclidian geometary.
    Matthias Mahlmann.
    George P. Fletcher.
    Rawls. - applying - recepie of internaionalism, doesn't follow from it. Hume, Kant.
    (Plato, Aristotle - from reincarnation)

    A considrible amount of abstration and training in feilds of cognitive science.


    It would be afvised if you want to contradict an argument do so citing diffrenet
    creficble scientific - theoritical + experimental claims. For experimental evidence
    John
    Mikhail - Rawls epirement with Foot's Trollys.

    Questions we have to answer:


    a. what is morality? - diffrent from choice (Power, self preservation, food that
    day, hungery)
    and behavior,just a instinctual base.
    b. how is it innate? - poverty of stimuls,
    c. does it make us Good? - one aspect contributing to behavior and choice,
    episotmology - like, SFC, we generate intutivive
    choice, but have to reexamine rationally its validity.
    d. what about economy, ideology, structures?
    e. On "bourgoises" morality - two aspects/schools - Houmboult, Mill, Early
    Rousouses. Ideals and values of enligtenment.
    Rudolf Rocker - how liberalism was slowly
    curropted by emerging capitalism.
    f. Application of this understanding - Not much. Leads to ammorality and justifies
    power principle.
    g. Different moral system. 1. Universal moral norms - Norms change over space and
    time.
    ex. human visual system - early experience.
    2. Tendency to move from 'uncontravieral' to 'incoherant'.
    "How do person aquire a culture? - Limited no. of behavior."
    Data to outcome. Extensive built in innate system. Specific
    genetic contructions.
    h. Moral progress (could go either way): Slavery, supersession of homosexuals,
    Envior,
    Basic princples - expansion of tolarance and against authority. - Blessed, no
    logical reason.
    Gives bases of equality, liberty, freedom to all human beings without
    discrimination.

    Example of 2:

    Case: Turing. persucution of homosexuals. Or indian. "Moral values" have advanced.


    "Terrorism" -

    OPOSITION TO BELIEVE IN MIS:


    1. Moral, cultural, epistemic, scientific relativism: claim: from 1 to 2.
    2. Marxists: Claim: Strong - everything. Week -
    Consequence:

    Scope and Limit of this study:

    a. defining a system of innate knowledge, that in intraction with stimulus forms


    a "moral organ".
    b. Competence, Performance.
    c. Infinite use of finte means.

    SIDE QUESTION:

    a. nature of evolution. - we will work with that however and "whyever" the systems
    eveolve,
    use of some of these is upon human will.
    b. We will work with assumption there is free will. But not talk about it.
    c. We will keep symentical questions aside: assumptions, words, or the concept they
    refer
    to have some basis (meaning) in human mind and external world.
    d. Cultural, insitutaional "morality" based on practices. - Practices cloaked in
    moral language.

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