tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post7274983487992563100..comments2024-03-25T11:49:21.281-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: Will Future Generations Find Us Especially Morally Loathsome?Eric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-16071631264373725462018-07-06T14:11:52.718-07:002018-07-06T14:11:52.718-07:00Thanks for the comments, folks -- and sorry about ...Thanks for the comments, folks -- and sorry about my slow reply!<br /><br />Daniel: Thanks for catching that.<br /><br />Howard: I think abstract values can change too; I'd hope there would still be something like morality, but I admit there is doubt about that! I also agree that the turns are unpredictable.<br /><br />Hannah: That of course is my concern, and I half agree. That's why I chose the example I did.<br /><br />Callan: I agree that is part of the road and we need to be careful about judging past generations; but to entirely withhold judgment seems extreme in the case of, for example, Nazis.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16274774112862434865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-36920496782269028752018-07-01T16:57:34.161-07:002018-07-01T16:57:34.161-07:00To me any future generation that fails to keep the...To me any future generation that fails to keep the situational context of past generations in context and judges as if their values could always have been done, they are morally lothesome. It's like judging a man for stealing bread and ignoring that his family was starving. History is a long hard road out of hell. You're going to have people owning slaves and giving them a night off once or twice a year (when others don't) and thinking themselves generous. The thing is though that person might think 'maybe them slaves need a bit more time off'. This is part of the road. It's those who are happy with where they (by chance) got to be and don't want the status quo to change/don't want to move up that road, those should be of scrutiny to latter generations.Callan S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-13705946786919650852018-06-29T23:58:33.023-07:002018-06-29T23:58:33.023-07:00Unless you're a vegan or a non-dairy-and-only-...Unless you're a vegan or a non-dairy-and-only-backyard-hens-vegetarian or aware of the importance of animal rights, then you are part of the 21st-century college-educated North American's moral equivalent of keeping slaves, oppressing women, and launching genocidal war. Haven't you already included it in your post: "leather hat", "McDonald's"? But it's great to ask questions: I also wonder whether I am part of another thing like that. Hannahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-63979915883102552732018-06-29T18:02:03.312-07:002018-06-29T18:02:03.312-07:00To pin down your point: you appear to say that soc...To pin down your point: you appear to say that society engages in widespread practices that are good or bad.<br />First, will they alter their abstract values in the future? Racism ends not with any change in values but when for whom the values hold is extended<br />Second, values differ from judgments on individual cases. Will the future have different values than us or will they have a different cluster of a moral way of life, in the sense of some Anthropologist like Boas?<br />Third, though contemporaries might give a sneak preview of the consensus tomorrow we might have no freaking idea because of the sheer twists and turns of evolution and history<br />Fourth, art, science and everything might change so much that there might not be any morality at all or morality will barely bear a family resemblance to morality todayHowiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12474061778220524205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-75620714896881361482018-06-29T07:36:06.757-07:002018-06-29T07:36:06.757-07:00The link to the Nazi philosopher post is broken, h...The link to the Nazi philosopher post is broken, here's the corrected link: http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2010/12/nazi-philosophers.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12426121849176039989noreply@blogger.com