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 kevinjjones rated 12 months ago- From the page: "But "ethics" as we know it, along with the rest of the moral law as it has been defined for us by the Enlightenment, only makes sense on the assumption of equality. It is a system of reciprocal obligations derived from models of citizenship that depended on the flatten...
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- kevinjjones rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "But "ethics" as we know it, along with the rest of the moral law as it has been defined for us by the Enlightenment, only makes sense on the assumption of equality. It is a system of reciprocal obligations derived from models of citizenship that depended on the flattening-out of social inequalities that had been taken for granted in the hierarchical societies that preceded them and that had been universal at the time of the founding of the world's great religions. The Biblical characterization of God as "Lord" was explicitly based on these social hierarchies, since it was obvious to everyone up until relatively recent times that the rules applying to lords, if any, were completely different from those applying to ordinary people. "
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