Or are this values aquired socially.
2006-10-23 11:22:04 · 7 answers · asked by Nicolas D 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If you can call it 'acquired socially," yes, because your feeling(awareness) of guilt is auto-formed within you, growing up, influenced by examples of your parents' behavior. Common sense is altogether different. It's a combination of intelligence (which can mature), and the physical development of your brain, i.e. even a college graduate can lack common sense. You might look at common sense as a talent. Some people can learn to play the piano and some people can't.
2006-10-23 11:44:29 · answer #1 · answered by Apex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These capabilities are certainly not "written in our souls/DNA." The human brain is capable of producing feelings of guilt and it is capable of exercising common sense. These are simple two of hundreds of capabilities. Not everyone exercises "common sense" the same way or to the same degree. It depends on the individual's practical experience and reasoning ability...which are acquired through daily living...or not. Not everyone experiences guilt the same way. Two people commit the same harmful act...one is filled with remorse and guilt for the horrible consequences he or she created. The other person feels nothing. Check out Enron's Jeffrey Skilling...no remorse. It all depends on what a person has decided throughout life is right and wrong...whether a person empathizes or not...whether a person rationalizes a hurtful act.
If you think a sense of right and wrong and common sense are valuable capabilities, are you cultivating them within yourself?
2006-10-24 03:45:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guilt and common sense both are evolved attributes.
A person who is not capable of guilt canot fully interact with a social species such as man, I believe we call them sociopaths, and while a few may prosper as cheats within a system that system would not be evolutionarly stable. Common sense is not easy to define but things such as not puttin your hand in the fire or stepping off tall edges seems to be part and parcel of our evolved instincts.
2006-10-23 12:00:15 · answer #3 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To learn good an evil is something that is learned. If a baby was born and never had any interaction with a person, they would never feel guilt.
So, yes, they are learned from society or mainly our parents.
So, to say that it is written in our DNA is just not so.
2006-10-23 11:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by callylily55 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 06:07:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Difficult to say. Obviously whatever it is not everyone has the same ability or feels the effects of such things. I always kind of think it comes along with intelligence.
2006-10-23 11:30:21 · answer #6 · answered by Robert B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guilt serves no useful purpose.
2006-10-23 11:30:02 · answer #7 · answered by lynda_is 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋