Sublime

As a result of sociobiological pressures there has evolved among Homo sapiens a sort of “herd morality,” which functions well in the perpetuation of our species. But on the atheistic view there doesn’t seem to be anything about Homo sapiens that makes this morality objectively true. If we were to rewind the film of human evolution back to the

As the 1940s came to a close, the newspapers and airwaves were again full of praise for Sartre as his Roads to Freedom trilogy of novels appeared in Paris’s bookstores. The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, and Iron in the Soul chronicled, with a disarming honesty but gloomy attention to psychological detail, the lives of characters based on Sartre and

The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

In morals we need not expect startling innovations: despite the interesting adventures of Sophists and Nietzscheans, all moral conceptions revolve about the good of the whole. Morality begins with association and interdependence and organization; life in society requires the concession of some part of the individual’s sovereignty to the common

And while traditionalists, taking their cues from Aristotle, Aquinas, and Burke, believed that man was naturally sociable and tended toward consensus, so long as there was the faithful transmission of an ethical tradition, Burnham saw only conflict. This bedrock belief in the “irrational” and violent core of man and the primacy of conflict over

Rushworth Kidder, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics and author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices,

Nature only needs "What works." And, as Meg Wheatley points out, it isn't "What works best." Nature doesn't care if it's not perfect. If it's a solution that works, nature uses it.