I think we have intuitive decent common sense morality that works for negotiations within the ingroup, and competing imperfect theories for acting towards outgroups.
What you quoted sounds to me like the latter is a recent project and Plato etc. discussed the former, which is new to me but sound plausible. Christianity was much more concerned with its outgroups than other religions of antiquity were, so it would make sense for them to be among the first (in/near Europe) to develop a framework for it, and the aim continues to make sense even after the supernaturalist means turned out to be bullshit.
Just because something is Christian doesn’t make it wrong or “not even wrong”. Confession was a decent innovation, and Christians did treat their kids better than other cultures of antiquity. Why wouldn’t their ideas for acting towards outgroup members be better than nothing? Remember, they came up with that in times when not even genocide had been established as bad.
Just because something is Christian doesn’t make it wrong or “not even wrong”.
No, but something being derived from a Christian framework and then being used outside the framework in which it was a coherent concept, might. (See the last quoted paragraph.)
I think we have intuitive decent common sense morality that works for negotiations within the ingroup, and competing imperfect theories for acting towards outgroups.
What you quoted sounds to me like the latter is a recent project and Plato etc. discussed the former, which is new to me but sound plausible. Christianity was much more concerned with its outgroups than other religions of antiquity were, so it would make sense for them to be among the first (in/near Europe) to develop a framework for it, and the aim continues to make sense even after the supernaturalist means turned out to be bullshit.
Just because something is Christian doesn’t make it wrong or “not even wrong”. Confession was a decent innovation, and Christians did treat their kids better than other cultures of antiquity. Why wouldn’t their ideas for acting towards outgroup members be better than nothing? Remember, they came up with that in times when not even genocide had been established as bad.
No, but something being derived from a Christian framework and then being used outside the framework in which it was a coherent concept, might. (See the last quoted paragraph.)