Reading of 12 Rules For Life - Foreword by Norman Doidge
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modern moral relativism has many sources. As we in the West learn more history, we understood that different epochs had different moral codes. As we traveled the seas and explored the globe, we learned off far flung tribes on different continents who's different moral codes made sense relative to or within the framework off their societies. Science played a role, too, by attacking the religious view off the world and thus undermining the religious grounds for ethics and rules. Materialist social science implied that we could divide the world into facts, which all could observe and were objective and riel and values which were subjective and personal. Then we could first agree on the facts and maybe one day develop a scientific code of ethics, which has yet to arrive. Moreover, by implying that values had a lesser reality than facts, science contributed in yet another way to moral relativism, for it treated value as secondary. But the idea that we can easily separate facts and values waas and remains naive to some extent, one's values determine what one will pay attention to and what will count as fact. The idea that different societies have different rules and morals was known to the ancient world to, and it is interesting to compare its response to this realization with the modern response, relativism, nihilism and ideology. When the ancient Greeks sailed to India and elsewhere, they two discovered that rules, morals and customs differed from place to place and saw that the explanation for what was right and wrong was often rooted in some ancestral authority. The Greek response was not despair, but a new invention philosophy.