GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

Lorentzen / Nicklaus lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Sat Dec 11 08:41:58 CST 1999


rj schrieb:

> Imo "evil" doesn't inhere in human nature: morality is simply a product
> of cultural conditioning. Witness the different attitudes to murder and
> retribution amongst different cultures, and even the changing foci of
> morality through the history of Western Christianity.


  Sounds like Nietzsche's "There are no moral phenomena, but only moral 
  interpretations of phenomena". 
                                                   KFL




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