Morality from Science

Morality cannot come from science. Science is about how the world is. Susan Kneeman made the point that morality is as apart from science as art or music or sports. It does not make one better than the other, the are separate from each other. Her use of Kant to explain how even he didn't tackle this subject straight on, but rather used a parable. We all know parable can be interpreted in many ways. I also liked her point about how we need the use of heroes to show how and why morality is good and correct. They are not facts in themselves, but rather experiences which lead us to understand what is true and moral. There is no science to it.

But she also made mention that there is a type of experience and process to come to understand that some things are not the best. Her point being that it is from the understanding that there is a better way of doing something leads people to moral breakthroughs does not seem to solid. She herself used the torture example as one that there are people who can always take one case as an example to show how it does work, therefore it should be applied. Even though there may be hundreds that go against it.

These heroes that we see as our examples of what we should do because it is morally correct, seem to be those few who lead us into a future in the moral zeitgeist. Their insight and conviction to what they believe is right opens the eyes and minds of the public to see what is moral and it leads us to have that consciousness within us to do what is right in the future. Like Ms. Banaji said about our human minds, we cannot deny the impact that things have on our mind, and sometimes our mind and our mouth are not in agreement. When we come to realize what is the better thing to do, because we have heard about it being done and we could intrinsically know it to be true, that impression stays on our mind and in time, maybe generations, the moral standard that was stamped in our minds comes to be the moral norm. This is on a smaller scale, but a population is made up of individuals, and so the process unfolds.