Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk
23rd June 2011, 00:17
Perhaps a weird question follows. What is our understanding of emotions? I'm unsure of any scientific classification or explanation, maybe it is a scientific topic, I am unsure. The general question is what do we understand to be emotions, as in how do they fit into material reality?
I've been reading a bit of nihilism, and I am in a strange moral conflict - it has got me thinking about how morals come about, and it led me to wonder if morals could be seen, at their base core, as a product of emotions. An example I guess would be that a common moral principle is that it is wrong to kill, but how is this moral understood to be true? The only way I can think of clarifying that is by thinking that the emotional pain that surrounds death promotes the moral principle that taking another life is wrong, thus basing this moral principle on human emotion.
Does that bear any currency at all? Could we say that morals could come about in such a way? We say that morals are an abstract human creation, or that they're fro
I've been reading a bit of nihilism, and I am in a strange moral conflict - it has got me thinking about how morals come about, and it led me to wonder if morals could be seen, at their base core, as a product of emotions. An example I guess would be that a common moral principle is that it is wrong to kill, but how is this moral understood to be true? The only way I can think of clarifying that is by thinking that the emotional pain that surrounds death promotes the moral principle that taking another life is wrong, thus basing this moral principle on human emotion.
Does that bear any currency at all? Could we say that morals could come about in such a way? We say that morals are an abstract human creation, or that they're fro