" Paul Bloom holds a position that morality has its roots in human biology and it is shaped by social environment without the influence of any supernatural intervention. Bloom suggests that the growing body of scientific knowledge in the field of evolutionary biology and anthropology confirms that traits necessary for the forming human morality are essential for survival and reproduction of biological species. ... By the time they are a toddlers, they already have certain amount of social experience. ... Bloom attributes such a behavior to influence of the social environment that shapes...

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It was guaranteed by the most powerful and reliable of all social institutions."(Pg. 291) This "powerful authority" was religion and it was very useful in sustaining a stable social system in times when security was hard to come by. ... He insisted that "economic facts have formed the foundation of social life; they are the base that generates the division of labor, the struggle of classes, and alienation" (136). ... Religion thus protects those who are in power, all the more as it "provides the ideology [...] which they can call upon to remind the poor that all social arrangements should sta...

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It was the exposition of this myriad of factors via advances in anthropology which first led to the growth of relativism. ... Ginsberg makes an excellent point in his Essays in Sociiology and Social Psychology. ...

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