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The moral conscience

From man to man..

François Rabelais écrivain Français de la renaissance... and the instinct to love

I do not believe in the philosophical sense, the freedom of man. Everyone acts not only under external compulsion but also from an inner necessity. Albert Einstein

The human species is the result of a natural environment ignoring prohibitions, morals and ethics *.

* Ignoring the prohibitions and morality as we know it in humanity, ie a moral and prohibitions and taught writing here because we believe that there is in the world a moral instinctive animal, ancestor of our moral thought.

To create our moral, it took one day the men begin to distinguish between these actions. They separate them into two categories. On the one hand the "bad" and prohibited actions. The other "good" and allowed actions. From this human foundation, our species is then truly separate manners of nature. It consists in "humanity". This first fundamental choice of origin can be used to our " conscience."

The moral partisan universal morality

From the time when man has acquired the "moral conscience", he has never ceased to advance. The moral sense, in its infancy, was rather clannish, elitist and primary *. It allowed especially dominant to sit down and maintain their prerogatives over their subordinates.

* Period clan that we could assimilate to the period of the wild horde which Sigmund Freud speaks.

Then came the great world religions and philosophies. This new vision hoisted human consciousness to the universal. Gradually, the great religions have reversed the code values ​​being in nature. On the one hand, they have criticized the violence, the taste for domination and predation etc.. And on the other, they valued the peaceful behavior, altruism, love of neighbor, the spiritual. With this masterful contribution, mankind has gradually extract the laws of nature. And began its extraordinary evolution towards justice, universality and equality.

Role of conscience

Develop large values

Enluminure médievale - foire moyen ageLove of neighbor, empathy

The whole philosophy [... ] is based on two things, what has the inquiring mind and bad eyes. Fontenelle

Framed by morality, humanity advance to its positive destiny. Jmt

The moral sense is one of the largest faculties of human evolution. Thanks to him, the man learns to restrain his impulses. By compressing these primary forces, civilized humanity more. All this humanization, directs our species in the direction of perfection.

Good or bad self-image

Apart from the bad times * every human action is accompanied by a sense of good or bad conscience.

* Preventing the bad faith or bad conscience or remorse or guilt to their work, it just dips the work in the unconscious.

This feeling reward our good deeds by the pleasure of a good conscience. It fills us with well -being, self-satisfaction and love received from others.
Conversely, each wrongdoing creates a sense of suffering and bad conscience. He punishes us with remorse, guilt and condemnation of others. * Every human being feels joy and happiness after completing a generous action towards others.

* ( if it has been properly educated and if the sensitivity was normally fulfilled )

The same person on the contrary, experience a feeling of emptiness, of despair, having violated human ethics. It will feel remorse for example if it hurts its congeners.

The insensitivity to others is rare and pathological

Pathological cases of total insensitivity to the moral and others are rare. These exceptions seem to depend entirely on the acquis of emotional deprivation, education etc.. In other words, according to our philosophy and after Plato, no human being is "naturally" bad. There are only children who have suffered failures of love and educations.

Pleasure and pain, the Supreme Leader

And so, this mechanism reveals a sense. With symptoms ranging from pleasure to pain, conscience directs human actions. Directing human actions, it directs by implication, the whole of humanity. We can then deduce the purpose of the conscience : It seeks to lead mankind to love.

Genealogy of Morals

The moral animal...

Nietzsche avec Lou Andréa Salomé, photographie à la charette... the moral taught.

Neither science nor art, do not cross the threshold for themselves the morality L. Brunschwig

The evolution of morality is primarily the result of the expansion of human consciousness. Since its inception, human consciousness has consistently expanded its field of vision. Issue of narcissism * animal, she leads the mind to its full blossoming : universalism.

* the inability to conceive others as anything other than an object or prey.

In its progress, she imagined the great moral values. Love of neighbor, respect for others, kindness, selflessness, brotherhood, equality, make party. She then deployed and taken to the stage where they appear today in humanity.

The moral development stems from the evolution of consciousness. But the origin of the moral conscience is natural. It derives its basis a kind of instinctive moral * already existing in nature.

* A form of human pre under somehow.

"Morality " of the instinct

Indeed, according to mecaniqueuniverselle, a kind of moral reflex govern the actions of the animal world. * The moral animal requires for example, the dominant natural primate, to limit its powers. To refrain from any gratuitous cruelty toward his subordinates even if physically and socially means.

* Scientists believe these " moral acts " as obeying a need ( saving energy).. But we could say the same of human morality.. In any case, in the end, this mechanism leads mankind to holiness and giving credit to all spiritualities.

This morality is part of the living system ( nature begins with good Kant says, because it is the work of God, freedom begins with evil because it is the work of man ).

In summary : The conscience originates from a kind of " instinct good" already present in our primate ancestors.

The origin of origins

In the same life

big bang image d'une galaxyThe origin of morality

Philosophy is nothing but the effort of the mind to realize the obvious. Jules Lagneau

But the genealogy of morality does not stop there.

The primate moral instinct is itself derived from a more primitive moral instinct. It dates back to the natural instinct forcing the reptile for example, do not kill free. To take away a life to eat or defend themselves. This reptile moral instinct down also a prior moral instinct. one of our first ancestor bacteria. It is known that it is able, among other act in harmony, in symbiosis or commensalism *.

* And commensalism, symbiosis and osmosis are just the ancestors of all our forms of love.

We have reservations about the perspective of Darwin that man is the only being whom we can identify with certainty the moral faculty and that would according to him, the greatest of all the distinctions that can be done between animals and humans).

The symbiosis of the bacteria is love

Symbiosis and osmosis performed by bacteria, up to my mind, the reinforcement of our feelings. The embryo of what we call, friendship, equality and love of others. They are in fact the foundation of our moral conscience. Without this initial moral, our ecosystem would not have been built. Predators would have eliminated all of their prey, and themselves to extinction of the animal kingdom.

The total possible realization of evil

And in the same way, if violence triumph of morality, human society would cease to exist. If the genocidal impulse outweighed the desire for harmony, all mankind would be gone. Yet, despite all the energy expended by hate to hate each other, love of neighbor prevails. Despite the power of racist voice claiming the extinction of the "stranger", the stranger continues. It resists and resist until universal peace is to be installed.

An inexorable mechanism

The transformation of the human animal, started there millennia, must go to completion. It includes progressive loss of instincts in favor of human values ​​*.

* For example, the more or less uncontrollable sexual instinct in nature, is better controlled by the man who is diluted more in love value.

The human being, leaving the kingdom of impulses gradually replacing " the good instinct " by human rules. It obeys better the moral and human laws *.

* Those that prohibit the abuse of his peers, abuse or violence to the next..

2001

 

cruelty

portrait de confucius

un jour, on demanda à Confucius comment il fallait agir en affinité avec ce "ren" et il répondit : "Aimez les autres et ayez de la compassion pour eux".

Confucius