4 Quotes & Sayings By Karmak Bagisbayev

Karmak Bagisbayev is an award-winning author of young adult fiction. Born in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, he now lives in the United States. He studied English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. Bagisbayev is currently working on his first novel, which is set in Kyrgyzstan and will be published by St Read more

Martin's Press. He hopes to partner with St. Martin's Press on future endeavors.

He has also recently completed his second novel for St. Martin's Press, which is set in the Ukraine and will be published this summer.

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Morality is part of man and it evolves over time just like the rest of humanity in accordance with Darwinian theory. If we said earlier that man’s evolution depends on change in the natural environment, now we must include the level of freedom of choice in that environment as a factor for change, for it is on this that the condition of morality depends. The higher the level of freedom of choice in society, the more liberal and humanistic that society’s morality will be. Karmak Bagisbayev
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I saw that morality varies from person to person, from group to group, from nation to nation. And the most interesting thing is that when I began to study history, I realised that morality changes with time. Morality will even shift to its exact opposite when the conditions that once produced it yield to change. When a new set of circumstances appears it is the people with a highly developed sense of individual freedom of choice that first try to change the status quo. More conservative individuals with a less developed sense of freedom resist change for as long as possiblebut give up in the end. Man always has freedom of choice, unlike other creatures, who only change their way of life when they are forced to by the natural environment. Now I understand that the morality which is said to be inherent in God, or, as the atheists prefer to express it, in Nature, naively thinking that replacing the word ‘God’ with ‘Nature’ will make them sound more scientifically convincing, does not exist at all!. Karmak Bagisbayev
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How exactly does ‘morality change in time’?”“ Morality is part of man and it evolves over time just like the rest of humanity in accordance with Darwinian theory. If we said earlier that man’s evolution depends on change in the natural environment, now we must include the level of freedom of choice in that environment as a factor for change, for it is on this that the condition of morality depends. The higher the level of freedom of choice in society, the more liberal and humanistic that society’s morality will be. Karmak Bagisbayev