If evolution is survival of the fittest, nature red in tooth and claw, how could animals evolve moral feelings?
如果进化论是讲适者生存,在弱肉强食的自然界,动物怎么能进化出道德情感?
And he calls these laws, these 19 laws of nature, the true and only moral philosophy.
他把这些称之为法,19条自然法,正确的和唯一道德的思想。
They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.
他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德,而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在,他的意愿不仅是绝对的,而且是绝对正确和道德的。
Not just that, but the moral certainties that may have seemed distinct when we contrasted the ethereal heaven with the spotty and the imperfect nature of Satan and of the moon -those, too begin to seem fairly hazy.
不仅如此,其中看起来有所不同的,当我们对比天堂和撒旦与月亮的不完美时,其中道德的确定性,-那些令人模糊朦胧的事务,也开始崩塌。
This is all by means of review but the question you can now ask is, "Fine. That's why moral feelings might evolve, but what do we know as psychologists about the emergence in nature of moral feelings in individuals?
这些知识我们以前都学过,现在你们要问一个问题,“好了,道德情感是这样产生的,但我们心理学家知不知道,自然界中的个体的道德情感是如何出现的?
These laws of nature are for him the true and only moral philosophy.
这些自然法对他而言是,真正的和唯一道德的思想。
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