I have grown

Wednesday March 21, 2007 - 7:18PM EDT

tired of philosophical discourse on many things.  Descartes, Kant, Spinoza, Hume, Malebranche, etc..  At first they seemed interesting. But as I read their ideas more I saw their views as tiresome. Eventually I thought to myself, who are these clowns to present a static view of things based on their own pithy experience. What got to me the most was positioning of philosophy as an objective view of the universe.  As each successive philosophy is defeated to be replaced by a new one it seems a useless exercise to me. Alright so I'll give up that it is not completely useless, but there are better and more beneficial ways to approach things than through esoteric philosophical discourse.

Since watching various documentaries on animal behavior and reading an article here and there on similar topics, the ideas of morality and ethics have taken a different shape in my mind. Morality and ethics as a rational thought process that needs to be figured out by each person or it being doled out from a supernatural being didn't make much sense. So today I saw this article.  It is a minority viewpoint but one that has implications in many things. And finally makes some kind of sense. I'm tired of various people trying to explain morality as if they have everything figured out already. More times than not, they simply come up with something to fit into whatever they want to be "right". Its pathetic. That something like morality has a biological basis is an idea that chips at the foundation of esoteric ideas being a basis for many things. Morality has for the most part always been seen as something not concrete, corporeal or tangible in any sense. It is one of the pillars that hold up the foundation of ideas that stem from "mysterious things".  Morality as being so important in everyday life but not easily explainable in a scientific sense gave weight to other ideas based on mysterious things have validity. Damn that sentence was confusing. Anyway, as stated in the article I too will be happy when morality is pried from the hands of philosophers.