Re:Great apes appear to have “theory of mind”
by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @10:00AM
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Except that we 'invented' the empathy. Or the concept of it.
I'm all for acting ethically. And mostly because we are the creature to compose the concept of ethics.
Nature is an idea; a human idea... or a bucket of ideas. One that different people or cultures put different things into. One needs to be highly suspicious of anybody who appeals to nature for some value in itself, or as a source of natural laws. People tend to see in 'nature' what they already believe.
And I think a similar principle holds for how we apply ethics in relation to the not-human, natural world. Careful.
I'm all for acting ethically. And mostly because we are the creature to compose the concept of ethics.
Nature is an idea; a human idea... or a bucket of ideas. One that different people or cultures put different things into. One needs to be highly suspicious of anybody who appeals to nature for some value in itself, or as a source of natural laws. People tend to see in 'nature' what they already believe.
And I think a similar principle holds for how we apply ethics in relation to the not-human, natural world. Careful.