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The idea of lives (Coscivian lives, at least) having intrinsic value (rather than having value only in relation to kith and kin) coalesces during this era, as do well-defined notions of law, honour, respect, and property. Social control is still exclusively shame-based, and moral-legal systems are still exclusively about maintaining social peace and mitigating inter-group conflict. | The idea of lives (Coscivian lives, at least) having intrinsic value (rather than having value only in relation to kith and kin) coalesces during this era, as do well-defined notions of law, honour, respect, and property. Social control is still exclusively shame-based, and moral-legal systems are still exclusively about maintaining social peace and mitigating inter-group conflict. | ||
=== Shaftonic Age === | |||
[[Shafto]] introduces virtue, introspection, and a generalised concept of duty. Guilt enters the equation of social control. Notions of “higher good”, “greater good”, and (in political thought) “public good” crystallise. Along with hierarchies of goods, relational and role-based sets of duties become more formally defined as people encounter more complex moral dilemmas in an increasingly sophisticated society. | |||
Although [[moral compartmentalism]] is not itself a ''part'' of Shaftonist thought, the role-based and relational conception of moral duties in Shaftonism nonetheless opens the door for it. | |||
=== Denominational Age === | |||
Now more commonly called the “Dozen Schools of Thought” stage, this involved the consolidation of formal, institutionalised religio-philosophical “schools” and traditions. Palæo-Sarostivism, for example, turned into Sarostivism proper and its wee siblings. Wàzist understanding of the divine + Shaftonist moral philosophy + Moon spirituality become Iduanism. Universism becomes Ruricanism, I think. | |||
Quoth the fella, Shaftonism provides the theoretical framework for this ecosystem to be possible by establishing a common set of values and moral-spiritual ''ends'' towards which different schools can be interpreted as different but well-intentioned ''*means''. Shafto tells the People what Right ''is'', the denominations help them get to it. Development of organised religion in the sense of ''religiō'' ( “binding back”) and religions as ways and disciplines of living. At the same time, weakening imperial authority and re-localisation of the economy encourage the conflation and consolidation of various dispersed and intermixed religious traditions into codified, ritualised denominations shared among a social group. | |||
Moral compartmentalism and cultural relativism peaked during this time. Denominational Age moral relativism wasn’t the live-and-let-live moral relativism of the modern Occident, but rather <strike>a stratified and ethnocentric relativism that held other peoples and adherents of other schools to lower standards on the basis of collective ignorance, degradation, or just endemic poor character</strike> <big>racism</big>. | |||
=== Christian Age === | |||
Noawadays often called the '''Abrahamic Age''' to include the similar dynamics involved in the spread of [[Islam]] among Coscivian peoples. This stage involved a gradual, still incomplete exit from moral parochialism and moral compartmentalism towards universalism and absolutism. {{wp|Christian egalitarianism}} also enters the equation, with important political consequences. | |||
==Reception and Evaluation== | ==Reception and Evaluation== | ||