06-06-2020, 07:12 AM
(06-06-2020, 02:35 AM)Blazkovitz Wrote: No, Eric, I'm not that smart ;P The distinction between ethics of care and sanctity was invented by Jonathan Haidt,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt
Well, it is not all that new. A long time ago, I was into evolutionary biology. It went into how man's basic drives evolved in our hunter gatherer years, and how they shaped modern societies. Some authors got into a distinction between the role of the tribal chief in making day to day decisions, and the role of the shaman in maintaining long term ethics. They fell out of favor after stepping on some feminists and the feminists stepped back. Too much emphasis on the male hunters, too little on the female gatherers. Still, they were correct that you had to understand the structure of ancient hunter gatherer societies if you expect to understand how modern society works.
Haidt seems to have reinvented all that without too much mention of how it evolved?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.