“Most of us pick up morality in the course of growing up, in an unorganized manner through bits and pieces of our scattered and fragmented experiences.” I’m quoting Avichal again. The book was mentioned in my last post which was inspired by it. This book, whose subtitle is Moral Philosophy, Organisational Theory and Hostage Rescue , keeps provoking me every now and then though I haven’t developed a liking for it in general because of its tendency to scientify matters (see a page below, for example). Morality is a personal affair. Where do we get it from? That’s the direction in which my thoughts shot off as I read Avichal’s paragraphs on the subject. I was born and brought up in an extremely orthodox Catholic family in the rural backyards of Kerala. The children woke up when the rouser bell tolled at 5.30 am from the parish church not far from home. We were too many children, ten of us to be precise, because our parents were strict adherents of their Church’s injunctions o...
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