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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I agree. Though I'm not sure if that's the biggest influence, or biology - there's a reason we feel so strongly about the moral importance of protecting children / family members, to use an obvious example.
Regardless it's become more and more obvious to me that anything that strikes one as being morally correct just on its face, intuitively, should be scrutinized very closely. Our gut reaction seems often insanely wrong.
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Obviously such a question would require a vast undertaking of sifting through Western cultural history. If you could illustrate a significant shift in moral values between Roman paganism and Roman Christianity, then the argument would hold that these values are supranatural.
David Bentley Hart (Orthodox theologian) has in fact done just that - Atheist Delusions (awful title). And so did Nietzsche.
As for gut reactions, and morality - totally agree. A lot of our natural morality almost certainly extends from natural selection acting through the cultural filter of a small, ethnically-homogeneous tribal setting.