like seems when was it wrong to murder or jump on the bed ? when did we start to say this is wrong....or since the creation of the world we knew what was right and wrong and what was taboo ? or if you dont believe in creation : the moment we turned from a monkey to a human did we automatically lay down laws ? like no having sex in public ?
2006-11-19 02:42:13 · 10 answers · asked by igottanoe 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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2006-11-19 02:48:02 · update #1
I think to some degree morals were always there. They just may not have been structured and organized. Once society placed certain laws, morals were clearly defined. Obey the laws & be a moral, upstanding member of society. A conscience, a sense of right & wrong are within you, they are not imposed on you. They must have been there since the beginning of time.
2006-11-19 03:21:49 · answer #1 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually morals were discovered and not developed over time.
Abraham's half brother, JoJo, was wandering around with his flock of sheep about 4,000 BC and noticed that his sheep were gathered around a flaming bush. This perked up his interest so he went over to investigate. The flaming bush started talking to him and he was dumbfounded, probably because the bush was a babbling bush, and it was actually reading off a recipe for mutton. But JoJo was sure that there had to be something more significant to this. He had just learned how to write a few words, "good", "bad", and "God" and stuff like that. So he wrote them down. Later he showed that to Abraham, who was not going to be out done and invented religion to justified his morals by saying that God said it had to be that way. And you had better not mess with God because he likes to torture people who mess with him. That was the origin of morals.
It took another thousand years before sex in public was frowned on, mainly because there wasn't much public to be public in. New York City, on the other hand, was invented, and without any flaming bushes, and some say, without morals.
2006-11-19 03:05:36 · answer #2 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Man is a higher "form of life", not just a more evolved monkey. He shares some of the characteristics of the animal kingdom but he belongs to the "human kingdom" not the animal kingdom.
It is assumed by many that man is just another form of animal.
With that premise it is justifiable to behave like an animal. Have sex in public etc.. as you mention.
Just as to acquire sciences we need a teacher, mankind has had many "spiritual teachers" who have refined his character in the course of history and taught him to acquire "virtues". These were Abraham, Noah, Buddha, Zoroaster. Moses, Jesus, Mohamed, Bab, and Bahá'u'llah.
2006-11-19 03:59:56 · answer #3 · answered by apicole 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We "human beings" better as a social animal and well-known morals whilst we first began to stay in communal communities. we expect of, comprehend and respond to stimuli which activates us to ascertain a typical of "socially perfect habit" it particularly is all that morality is. Morality pre existed long beforehand faith and isn't nor has it ever been religiously based. Theists would have you ever suspect that it is common to now not have morality with out faith yet it particularly is merely their tries to very own that which preexisted faith. faith is notwithstanding the main expedient thank you to impose the morality of the few directly to the various nonetheless as history has many times shown. think of approximately it!
2016-12-17 12:35:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
morality is an abstract concept like math or art. As our prefrontal lobe finished developing about 15000 years ago that is when we as a species were able to understand the abstract. It is also when we started making the big steps forward as the dominant species on the planet.
2006-11-19 07:06:12 · answer #5 · answered by polar270 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real wrongs are the things you feel instinctively are wrong. What we call morals are, I suggest, essentially genetic, and principles of the same general kind are there in all of life, it's only the specifics that are different from species to species, and from one individual to another.
2006-11-19 05:42:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When people care for each other,morals will automatically develop,and others will meld them to their own beliefs and situations.
2006-11-19 03:06:38 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to my beliefs, Adam, first human ever was tought by God what was right and what was wrong.
since religion shapes morals, I would say morals were there since day one in humans lifes
2006-11-19 02:54:55 · answer #8 · answered by Gifted S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, when people began socializing, proper social behavior was developed.
2006-11-19 02:51:55 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
2006-11-19 04:06:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋