Sunday, May 06, 2007
Professor Hauser and Morality again
Hauser, morality and groups
News: Right and wrong is in our genes this is the title of the article I would like everybody to read. There are plenty of good ideas and one can continue reading similar ideas when you use the link in my previous post on Professor Hauser and Morality
Just only a small quotation here
The argument goes that humans are social animals and depend on group interactions for food and other necessities. Groups work better when members can trust one another and practice reciprocity. Because humans can quickly identify a breach of trust, they can readily punish a transgressor. Over time, those who demonstrate more cooperative and trustworthy tendencies can build a more cohesive society and will have a survival advantage.
Here, in the Czech Republic this seems no to be as much developed as in other nations. Czechs usually prefer to “obey” the one equipped with power to punish, someone with the formal power given to him by some kind of function. One can see that easily in schools, where old fashioned, through communistic upbringing damaged school directors do not do the best for the students but the best for themselves, they just only wish to stay at their higher position, it is mostly not their wish to go into a discourse on any vague topic with the higher authority; they have only learned to obey.
Of course, this is not only at schools, you can see it mostly all around, and so this nation was , is and will stayed affected negatively by communists primitive and egoistic emotions for decades and for generations.
This group is damaged but the members of this group mostly do not know it and refuse to accept such ideas.
News: Right and wrong is in our genes this is the title of the article I would like everybody to read. There are plenty of good ideas and one can continue reading similar ideas when you use the link in my previous post on Professor Hauser and Morality
Just only a small quotation here
The argument goes that humans are social animals and depend on group interactions for food and other necessities. Groups work better when members can trust one another and practice reciprocity. Because humans can quickly identify a breach of trust, they can readily punish a transgressor. Over time, those who demonstrate more cooperative and trustworthy tendencies can build a more cohesive society and will have a survival advantage.
Here, in the Czech Republic this seems no to be as much developed as in other nations. Czechs usually prefer to “obey” the one equipped with power to punish, someone with the formal power given to him by some kind of function. One can see that easily in schools, where old fashioned, through communistic upbringing damaged school directors do not do the best for the students but the best for themselves, they just only wish to stay at their higher position, it is mostly not their wish to go into a discourse on any vague topic with the higher authority; they have only learned to obey.
Of course, this is not only at schools, you can see it mostly all around, and so this nation was , is and will stayed affected negatively by communists primitive and egoistic emotions for decades and for generations.
This group is damaged but the members of this group mostly do not know it and refuse to accept such ideas.
# posted by Dalibor @ 4:53 AM 
