Most great thinkers were terribly wrong – and while religious prophets have caus

Most great thinkers were terribly wrong – and while religious prophets have caused the most bloodshed than any other thinkers, philosophers have been a mixed bag, most of which was hamful, while natural philosophers (economists, engineers, scientists) have dragged mankind out of ignorance, superstition, starvation, and disease.

Kant is no different. Rousseu began the revolution against empiricism with moral justification claiming man had a nature he did not, kant imitated him with rationalism, trying to recreate the authority of religion without mysticism. And together they caused all that followed them to follow the continental project of rejecting the Anglo invention of the modern state, rule of law, natural law and natural rights and obligations, by the PROHIBITION on authority that the french, germans, and jews tried to recreate.

Now I can define Morality scientifically and you will be unable to falsify it. It’s just reciprocity in whatever context. Though I won’t bore you with the properties of reciprocity at present. For morality at scale we simply expand reciprocity by scale into political and international scopes of human interaction, resulting in natural law. This is a purely scientific project that began with Aristotle and was only complete today.

Does that mean that all people will agree with reciprocity and natural law define personal to political to international morality? Of course not. Because everyone wants a moral code that benefits them, not one that is equal across all. In other words, most people are immoral and only as moral as they must be. And they justify their immorality for various reasons of psychological, economic, and political utility.

Gods are the product of the minds of men, for various psychological reasons, we share in common, even if some more so and some less so. They were the best we could do in the ancient and medieval worlds. They were not the best the greeks could do, and they are not the best that we can do. Because religion is terribly expensive and so far we are unwilling to pay the price of a new non-false religion.

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