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Joseph McCabe. The Human Origin of Morals
The Human Origin of Morals
Table of Contents
Chapter I. Theories of Moral Law
Chapter II. Evolution and Morals
Chapter III. The Dawn of Conscience
Chapter IV. Religion and Morals
Chapter V. Moral Eccentricities
Chapter VI. The Christian Ethic
Chapter VII. Moral Law Is Social Law
Chapter VIII. The Revolt Against Morality
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Joseph McCabe
Published by Good Press, 2020
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We have so little literature of the older civilizations that we cannot say much about, the ideas of their thinkers, as far as they have had any thinkers, but we have found a little Egyptian moral treatise (The Maxims of Ptah-Hotep), of more than four thousand years ago, which seems to show that even then educated men who were not priests understood that moral law was, simply a human and social law of conduct. I explain in The Myth of Immortality (Little Blue Book No. 1059) that that was the conviction of the two great moralists, Buddha and Confucius.
However, real speculation began with the Greeks. Most of the people who talk about "brilliant Greece" and "meteoric Athens" know very little about the subject. Earnest thinking about nature and man began amongst the Greeks, not of Athens or the homeland, but of Asia Minor.
