Joseph on Nostr: 4/25 “Once upon a time, he said, there was no morality at all. There was life; ...

4/25

“Once upon a time, he said, there was no morality at all. There was life; there were human beings, and they even had language, so they had memes (to commit a third anachronism). We can presume that they had words—and hence memes—for good and bad, but not ethical good and bad. ‘The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place.’ They had no concept of right or wrong because ‘They are Qualities, that relate to men in Society, not in Solitude.’ Hobbes called this epoch in our prehistory ‘the state of nature,’ because it resembled in its most important features the plight of all the other animals in the wild, to this day.”