Hammurabi's code is very advanced that administers justice to people. It is amazing how these things were there at that time in history.
2006-09-26 21:20:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Morality is a social necessity, primitives must have had moral codes long before Hammurabi, but they did not have writings so we don't know their laws
2006-09-26 21:25:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Mesopotamians were the ones who invented: the wheel, sun-dial, first written language (which was Cuneiform), lens, glass, irrigation system (toilets), lock and key, arch style, number zero, law, and countless others. I find it completely fascinating as to how the Mesopotamians yearned to learn so much and invent essential things which are still being used today. They even had ideas about the Pythagorean Theorem, even before Pythagoras claimed the theorem to be his own.
2006-09-29 11:06:14 · answer #2 · answered by ImAssyrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hammurabi's code was barbaric and evil at best. Not to mention, for there to have been moral codes in writing, there would have had to have been moral codes before writing. So it goes back much farther than you seem to assume.
I find it fascinating that the Egyptians built the pyramids, not that they declined to kill and eat one another. I expect such basic morality out of humans in any society.
2006-09-26 22:05:04 · answer #3 · answered by Blue Devil 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I only find it fascinating that so many people think justice and fairness, or ethical behaviour are a late invention by some religion or other.
They aren't.
The people in the caves had as much of a sense of it as we do, most probably even more, because there was less greed and only a few personal possessions.
2006-09-27 00:26:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't understand the question. Do you think you have to be of the "book" religions to know what morality is?
2006-09-27 05:29:37 · answer #5 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that when mankind was first created, He was created with an innate sense of right and wrong all ready built into mankind wiring.
2006-09-28 09:16:53 · answer #6 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do too. It makes me laugh how Christians and Muslims "hijack" morality when it was around long before they even existed.
2006-09-26 21:29:45 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no not at all. we have always had our fears. as long as we have them we will make up religions and strange morals to appease ourselves.
2006-09-26 21:32:24 · answer #8 · answered by nitin s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what kind of morality is it to mary your own sister?
2006-09-26 21:29:33 · answer #9 · answered by acid tongue 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is fascinating. where's your question?
2006-09-26 21:28:33 · answer #10 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋