Generative Anthropology
Hello, does the Rabbi know this method of generative anthropology by Arik Gantz? http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/gaintro/
And in general, what does the rabbi think about anthropological and sociological methods that try to explain religious laws (and the concept of “God”) as growing out of social processes? Sometimes the explanations sound quite plausible. What are the main points of the counterargument? Did the rabbi write about this somewhere?
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I don’t know, but I have often heard such explanations for the development of religion, as well as morality and everything else that exists. My general opinion (as I said, I don’t know it specifically) is that this is a false assumption. People feel that there is no substance to all this, and in any case they are looking for an evolutionary explanation. Such an explanation can always be found (after all, evolution is an irrefutable theory. And at least there is no phenomenon that cannot be explained evolutionary).
According to the same logic, there is no morality and there is nothing but molecules.
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