Comment on Open thread, November 2011

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:39:46 GMT

were they just idiots?

No.

Then how did they fail to notice that slavery is wrong?

That's good to know, but I didn't claim that science was a value system.

Science the investigative part of humanity's attempt to control Nature. It is objectively the case that we control Nature better than we once did. I assert that there is evolutionary pressure on our attempts to control nature. Specifically, bad Science fails to control nature.

A similar critique of morality can be found in books like Nietzche's On the Genealogy of Morals. What is morality's response?

I don't understand what this question is asking.

Very paraphrased Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Science makes progress via paradigm shifts. Very paraphrased Nietzsche: Paradigm shifts have occurred in morality.

If paradigm shifts don't seem like a radical claim about either Science or Morality, then perhaps I should write a discussion post about why the claim is extraordinary.

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