I get the feeling simplified moral systems are largely a recent western phenomenon. This doesn’t seem to be limited to moral systems, e.g., simple theories of history. I suspect this is caused by people seeing the success that fundamentally simple theories have had in the hard sciences, and trying to apply the same methods to other fields of endeavor.
I don’t think there are many people or religions who thought that the Ten Commandments were the whole sum of human morality. The Bible certainly does not present them as such—it would be a lot shorter, if it did.
I get the feeling simplified moral systems are largely a recent western phenomenon. This doesn’t seem to be limited to moral systems, e.g., simple theories of history. I suspect this is caused by people seeing the success that fundamentally simple theories have had in the hard sciences, and trying to apply the same methods to other fields of endeavor.
The Ten Commandments are pretty simple.
I don’t think there are many people or religions who thought that the Ten Commandments were the whole sum of human morality. The Bible certainly does not present them as such—it would be a lot shorter, if it did.