Can humans evolve w/o reasonable& equitable/fair rules of responsibility& civility to govern interhuman acts?

Question

ref: TWH 05122006 To be more specific pls add after the word "evolve" the phrase "into better moral caring beings."

Answer 1

No we cannot. It is part of the social evolutionary process. Without doing this you have chaos and anarchy.

Answer 2

Well I think humans did evolve from unreasonable, non responsible, and uncivil beings to the people we are today. Some of these humans are all of the above and some are almost none of the above. Part of the evolution is to develop the rules that make us more civilized. So if you are asking if we can skip the rules and still be caring and moral, I would have to say,,,,, of course, they have the reverse effect. The caring and morals part is what guides us into the rules...

Answer 3

Those rules and a sense of fairness appear to have an innate component in humans (as well as other species). They were the product of evolution, similar to how dogs have evolved instincts to help them survive.

What's the survival advantage of being fair and civil to each other? Well, for a social species such as our own, a group of people cooperating is much more likely to survive than individuals fending for themselves.

To address your question, can humans evolve without such rules? Technically, yes, evolution could occur in the absence of rules that help us form stable societies. But that was not the course that our species took. So we're pretty much stuck with them for a while.

Answer 4

We are. For the most part through mystification in an oppressive class society, we become as self divided from self and self opposed. Here are notes on part of the struggle:

'The Unhappy Consciousness
Φ 207. Hence the Unhappy Consciousness (1) the Alienated Soul which is the consciousness of self as a divided nature, a doubled and merely contradictory being.

Φ 208. This unhappy consciousness, divided and at variance within itself, must, because this contradiction of its essential nature is felt to be a single consciousness, always have in the one consciousness the other also; and thus must be straightway driven out of each in turn, when it thinks it has therein attained to the victory and rest of unity. Its true return into itself, or reconciliation with itself, will, however, display the notion of mind endowed with a life and existence of its own, because it implicitly involves the fact that, while being an undivided consciousness, it is a double-consciousness. It is itself the gazing of one self-consciousness into another, and itself is both, and the unity of both is also its own essence; but objectively and consciously it is not yet this essence itself — is not yet the unity of both. '

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phbb.htm

The Phenomenology of Mind

— B —
Self Consciousness

A: Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness:
Lordship and Bondage
Φ 178. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS exists in itself and for itself, in that, and by the fact that it exists for another self-consciousness; that is to say, it is only by being acknowledged or “recognized”. The conception of this its unity in its duplication, of infinitude realizing itself in self-consciousness, has many sides to it and encloses within it elements of varied significance. Thus its moments must on the one hand be strictly kept apart in detailed distinctiveness, and, on the other, in this distinction must, at the same time, also be taken as not distinguished, or must always be accepted and understood in their opposite sense. This double meaning of what is distinguished lies in the nature of self-consciousness: — of its being infinite, or directly the opposite of the determinateness in which it is fixed. The detailed exposition of the notion of this spiritual unity in its duplication will bring before us the process of Recognition.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phba.htm



http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/li_terms.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hlnotion.htm#HL3_587a

Answer 5

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