File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0307, message 56


From: amscult-AT-drake.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:15:39 -0500
Subject: Child's Play


Hello again,

Another thought about guilt came across the wires which I thought might be of 
interest. This from my sixteen year old son,upon hearing that I had been doing 
some thinking about guilt and conscience:

He:(loose transcription) It all comes about through evolution.In the case of 
guilt, human beings needed a way to develop trust; so guilt comes about as 
something to gnaw at you if you do something to make yourself untrustworthy.

Me:  Oh, you mean to keep men from straying from their families and not coming 
back to take care of them?

He. No, the reason they are responsible to their families is for their own 
protection.

Me.  Men don't need their families for protection. It's the other way around.

He:  It's for when they get old(Oh Balding One!) and need their families to 
take care of them.

Aside from the questionable science here, I am curious about the relationship 
between the phenomenological search for origins and what seems like a parallel 
search in evolutionary biology.

Regards,

Allen


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