How Morality Emerges

Moses with the Ten Commandments by Rembrandt(1659)

It is the above?...eh...don't think so

 Is it the thinking encapsulated below?...far more likely.

Morality or Moral life is a manifestation of spontaneous order. 

Like language and law, morality emerged undesigned from the life of men with one another: it is so much bound up with human life, indeed, as to be partly constitutive of it. 

The maxims of morality, then, in no way presuppose an authority, human or divine, from which they emanate, and they antedate the institutions of the state. 

But, secondly, the detailed content of the moral conventions which spring up unplanned in society is not immutable or invariant. 

Moral conventions change, often slowly and almost inperceptibly, in accordance with the needs and circumstances of the men who subscribe to them. 

Moral conventions must (or Hayek's account of them) be seen as part of the evolving social order itself.

If you are drawn to this kind of thinking, read F. A. Hayek


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