Very nice summary of all the currents of thought regarding morality. +1.
I'm currently publishing a 5 part series with my personal take on this subject here on Steemit.
I completely agree that every person should build their own moral tools to evaluate their choices in life. A moral choice should be a decision of the individual and not a decision of a dogmatic recipe.
Ironically, by taking a more internal path we find that most of the time we will end up with moral rules that are shared with the social group. This is not only due to sharing the accumulated knowledge of past culture, but also because of biological evolved factors you mentioned like mirror neurons, many of these we are just finding out about now.
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Thanks @caerbanogwalace! Be sure to leave a comment here when you publish your series so I can give it a read. I really like the aspect of exploring the mirror neurons, systems for empathy, and other nature-based aspects of ethics, virtue, and morality that we are, as you said, just now learning about. Hurray neuroscience and evidence-based psychology! Definitely interested in the angle you're taking as I didn't cover the nature part much at all here.
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Ah! I see you're already publishing them now. Sweet, I'll check them out!
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