Simplistic Politicians and their 'Moral' take
The history of concepts such as 'Morality' serves a purpose for culture similar to that served by memory for an individual. We cannot be a person without memory, and we cannot be a culture without the history of concepts.
The history of concepts is the best method for understanding any human idea because it integrates the development of the concept in areas as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religion, mythology, art, and folklore.
It denies nothing except the currently fashionable delusion that when people in other societies talk about ideas that are real to them what they “really” mean are things that seem “real” to our contemporary mode of perceiving reality. It is an odd conceit
Morality does not equal truth because it is constituted by concept as diverse as sentiment, philosophy, psychology, religion, mythology, art, and folklore
The simplistic ideas of Pelosi, Harris, Booker and OAC that the ideal 'moral'rational language is literal and univocal and has a unique relation to 'truth' underlies biblical literalism.
Morality continues to change due to the social force of ridicule.social persuasion, propaganda, peer and professional pressure,
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