The Philosophical Boy

I'm at a meal with a bunch of friends and SJ is here and I am chatting to her son round the dinner table while we all eat.  We are having a philosophical discussion about morality and the nature of the universe. I can't remember where we began, but it was moving around the idea of weather there was an innate goodness in people, nature (plants and animals) and reality as a whole.

I was arguing from the perspective that matter was not intelligent, and that there was no "being" behind the creation of the universe, and so how could there be a morality behind it all, morality being a definately human construct. He seems to be coming from a different place, in fact he is arguing the exact opposite.

"There simply can't be an innate morality in people if there is no innate morality in nature and the universe. I mean look; nature is cruel." I say..

"Perhaps" he says

"Unless of course, you believe there is a conscious intelligence
behind the nature of reality, behind the universe itself..." i say

"Yes, I believe there is" he says.

"You mean a kind of being, living thinking being..."
(I try to avoid the word god)

"Yes" he says. "It looks after you, and this being is in us too". He is only a youngster, perhaps about 10.

Interesting I think, and catch Rosa's eye, who is sitting at the other
end of the table.

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