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Don't you think it's a circularity? Q: Whose political theories are the most modern? A: Of the most successful countries, of course.

I see. Personally I'm now under impression of Pinker's "language Instinct". And it seems tempting to apply the same methodology to the morality. According to Chomsky's theory language abilities are hardwired, that's why all languages are intrinsically the same, no one of them is superior to...

Excuse my persistence, but what do you mean by "developments in morality"? It seems to me that humans remain the same, their morality neither develops nor degrades. Human concepts of morality definitely become more and more elaborated, but this seemingly doesn't affect human behavior. I think...

I guess I misused and misunderstood some words. But anyway, if humans develop their morality for the purpose of muting the effects of human ambition and selfishness, does it mean that ancient societies in general are more ambitious and selfish than modern?

If morality was (once) developed by humans, shouldn't we assume that before that moment there existed absolutely immoral people? But why immoral people would wish to invent morality? Were their lives too hard due to constant struggle with each other (Hobbesian society)? But so far we don't know...

I think it's not the matter of complexity and the difference can be easily explained. A human is virtually unable to inflict a fatal injury with bare hands, while one successful bite of cobra would kill. That's why fighting is moral for humans and immoral for cobras (and for most animals with...

Cobras are clearly 'lower' forms of life than humans, but they, contrary to humans, never fight for status – they use ritualized forms of superiority demonstration instead. So shouldn't we consider their 'hard wired' morality more evolved and more complete as they don't inflict physical...