[OT] Plato's Pub and Philosophical Society

[Chronon]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
As a human concept though, I still believe morality has value, because we made it and we place value upon it and it holds our society together (or pretends it does. )

Ah yes, the pragmatic position. I agree with you on this one.

In any orderly society (or perhaps I should say functioning society) there needs to be some set of rules by which people live (or strive to live, anyway). In some societies there have been more religious moralities, and in some more civic or secular (and the whole continuum in between). That is why the whole question of universal morality and universal truth is so problematic. Essentially it's just cultural hegemony: the imposition of one peoples' set of values/morals over another's.

[ March 26, 2003, 13:23: Message edited by: Chronon ]