MORALITY AS A HUMAN CONSTRUCT

1. MORALITY AS A HUMAN CONSTRUCT HUMANISM - KS3

2. How much do animals know about right and wrong?

3. Why should I consider others? ‘Myself, I think the only possible answer is the humanist one – because we are naturally social beings; we live in communities; and life in any community, from the family outwards, is much happier, and fuller, and richer if the members are friendly and co-operative than if they are hostile and resentful.’ Margaret Knight, humanist and psychologist (1903 – 1983)

4. Nature “red in tooth and claw” Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll’d the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law- Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d against his creed- Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills, Who battled for the True, the Just, Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal’d within the iron hills?

5. “Evolution can only produce selfishness and violence!”

6. The Co-operation Game

7. The Big Question Where does our sense of right and wrong come from?