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Having standards doesn't mean a good/evil dichotomy. Do hunter-gatherers have fullblown Western moralizing because they like competent hunters & story-tellers b

by gwern 9y ago

Having standards doesn't mean a good/evil dichotomy. Do hunter-gatherers have fullblown Western moralizing because they like competent hunters & story-tellers better than incompetent ones? > but don't take my word for it, read Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. I have, and I'm sure you can come up with a better source than that...

dvt 9y ago
> Having standards doesn't mean a good/evil dichotomy. I guess we have a foundational disagreement. If you don't think that virtue/anti-virtue pairs, e.g., courage/cowardice or honesty/deception, are essentially good/evil dichotomies, then what are they?