Problem! Expensive psychoanalysts may take years to answer that question. Good novelists work quicker. Even though the difference between men and other animals is one of degree the degree is a big one.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 1:33 am Belinda,
What is he reacting to is it in a nutshell, excellent, we are definitely on the same page. After you've spent some time with it I think you are perhaps more able to expand upon that human theme. Like you have already underlined, perhaps it might be best to start with the somewhat less complex behaviors of our animal cousins. Here the concept is more straightforward forward like you said, not different in kind different in degree of complexity.
We need first of all to establish criteria (first principles).Taking into account the humility and hindsight of postmodernism, I propose ordinary human kindness is the best principle to establish first. And "What is he reacting to?" implies ordinary human kindness . Actually, the preservation of life on Earth comes a close second and I'd have a lot of time for those who would make that the first principle. I can see I have slid from the truth of behaviours into the goodness of behaviours. I'm justified in so doing as truth and goodness are aspects of what men have aimed for, for two and a half thousand years.