1336: Dependent Moral Structure
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/07/25
If the universe does not have an inherent moral structure, then all moral systems, whether believed to be transcendent or not, come out of a biological systemic interaction with the environment and other biological systems in an environment, living and non-living. Therefore, morality would be distinctly derivative from the structure of the universe rather than fundamental or built into the laws of Nature. We know human beings evolved in the universe and after the purported origin points of the universe. Therefore, if the universe has an Arrow of Time, apparently, we’re left with the non-comforting conclusion on Ethics: Morality is derivative, not primary, or secondary and not part of the basic structure of the world. All moral and ethical considerations should follow from this.
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