Archive-kopie, 28. January 2020. László Harcz: The general theory of moral

László Harcz

The general theory of moral

  

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Content

Abstract

The "9 point"

The concept of morality

Introduction

Contents of the chapters

Dear Reader!

This writing is about the survival of life, human morals and human nature. The starting line of thought can be found in Abstract and in "9 points":

Abstract, in 7 points

This is the shortest description of how morality works and of "The general theory of morality":

1.Evolutionary reward feelings (enjoyment, joy, happiness, pride, etc.) we get from the instincts if we fulfill the urges of our life-sustaining instincts (of our conscience), if we take on the difficulties that come with them, that is, if we make the sacrifices necessary for the survival of our own lives, for the survival of the community, for the survival of the race, and ultimately for the survival of all living nature, so we always do as the interests of survival require, that is, to obey the urges of our life-sustaining instincts.

These impulses fall into two main groups:

--- our victims, who bring about the viability of our community of life, and

--- our aspirations and behaviors, which improve our own vitality and thus maximize our position and influence within the community. I called them "our compulsion (constraint) of our instinctive self-esteem."

This is moral behavior.

2. But we sabotage the fulfillment of our life-sustained instincts because of our immoral, pleasure-seeking, opportunistic, lazy mentality that is always looking for pleasure and the easier way, because human nature only wants to obtain of the evolutionary, physical and mental  rewarding feelings, because we let go of the desires that work in us, i.e. we let go the power of the coercion (constraint, compulsion) from our "pleasure-seeking".

This is immoral behavior.

3.This is through self-deception and hypocrisy, which instinctively persuade ourselves and the outside world that we have done what our instincts, that is, our conscience (spokesperson for our life-sustaining instincts), want.

4. In this way we can gain the evolutionary reward feelings, fulfill our pleasure-seeking desires, but all of this is only possible through basic deceptions.

5. But with all these scams and swindles we endanger the efficiency of evolution and thus the survival of life because our decisions are not based on realistic reasons!

6. So moral behavior is the meaning of human life, because it ensures the survival of life!

7. In this letter I have described the core of the philosophy of evolution, the essence of which is that all things are significant and valuable to such an extent, to what extent these things are useful for the survival of life.

Formation and description of human morality, the "9 points":

The "9 points":

1. Life wants to continue, it wants to stay.

This is the most important attribute of the phenomenon of life.

2. The survival of life is ensured by cooperation between DNA (the genetic inheritance) and our brains.

It has evolved over the course of evolution for animal-like creatures - including physiologically, humans! - a system designed to maintain life. This works in such a way that individuals inherit from their predecessors genetic material, the inheritance material, in the form of the DNA of the cells, which contains the life experiences of all the generations of the ancestors, and thus our mind can deduce the recommended behaviors.

3. The system of desires

Because these instinctive behaviors are often more difficult to implement than simple responses to changes in the environment, human beings often do not follow the urges of the instincts and choose the "easier way". It is for this reason that the system of desires and conscience have been formed to utilize the power of desire to help us follow the instructions of our instincts.

4. Acquiring rewarding feelings the normal way

Our desires are satisfied by our instincts with rewarding feelings if we fulfill the requirements of our life-sustaining instincts.

The way things are done is simple in principle: the individual fulfills the instincts, takes on the inherent difficulties, and is rewarded with evolutionary reward feelings.

On the body level these are the pleasures and the natural well-being associated with physiological functions, while on the spiritual-emotional level they are good conscience, joy, happiness, all forms of pleasant state of mind etc.

The animals were still unconditionally obeying their instincts, the trouble began with the man who does not want to take on the difficulties that are inherently involved in meeting the instincts. 

The feelings we have when satisfying our desires are for the human being the most attractive, pleasant, and enjoyable feelings of his life.

Thus, obtaining these "rewarding feelings" is also an instinctive compulsion, since these urges are a fundamental component of the evolutionary incentive system.

5. Obtaining rewarding feelings through cheating, using the "easier way"

So there is a duality established with our desires because we also want to receive feelings of reward that will satisfy our desires, but we also want to save the difficulties of accessing them, ie the difficulty of going the right way.

Human beings generally do not want to give up on any of them. Thus, with the help of increased human abilities over animals, through the deception of ourselves (self-deception) and the outside world (hypocrisy), we can obtain the desired rewarding feelings by choosing the "easier way" with ignoring our instincts for good (our useful instincts).

Thus, with the help of increased human abilities over animals, through the deception of ourselves and the outside world (self-deception and hypocrisy), we can obtain the desired rewarding feelings by choosing the "easier way" with ignoring the instincts of good, but this way leads with a high probability, to losing the life of humanity and the whole nature!

6. Thus, in the course of evolution, the conscience has appeared within us, which unmistakably senses that we have chosen to fulfill the urges of our instincts, or to let go of our desires, instead of fulfilling the requirements of our useful instinctive impulses for survival rather, we obeyed the self-serving, opportunist, pleasure-seeking seductions of our own desires, and chose the easier way.

So we have yielded to the temptation of our seductions for the bad way, for the selfish, opportunistic, hedonistic seductions of our desires.

 7. This is how the concept of morality came to be: Moral, in my view, is the endeavor (to struggle for a lifetime with our own moral weakness) to act on the urges of conscience and to accept the difficulties that are always associated with the right path, ie to bring sacrifices to the community and making sacrifices for our own development, rather than humiliating others and degrading their creditworthiness and destroying their human and moral values ​​in order to appear more valuable and better than we in reality are. Morality is the prime condition for the survival of life, and its degree is the degree to which conscience is preserved.

8. And morality is the degree to which one's the urge of conscience is kept.

My view is also supported by Plato's saying that "morality is of divine origin", and therefore not the result of the bargain of human beings or social groups; it does not depend on human intentions and compromises, but on an absolute set of requirements based on natural, physiological foundations, and there are countless philosophers who agree with Plato, but many also agree with Aristotle, who believes that morality is a system of norms that is always shaped by the agreement of the social environment concerned.

Based on the above, we can state that morality is essentially the same as trying to keep the word of conscience (the urges of our life-sustaining instincts), and thus the ultimate condition for the survival of life.

9. The meaning of human life

From the above also follows that

the purpose of human life is to achieve the highest degree of morality, that is, to fulfill the urges of our life-sustaining instincts as much as possible.

This line of thought forms the core of my paper, „The General Theory of Morals". 

All of this represents a fundamental change in the previous view of the whole philosophy and brings a fundamentally new paradigm.

And now I would like to recommend to the Dear Reader the concept of morality, which expresses the essence of my work better and more concisely than any other formulation:

The concept of moral

Moral, in my view, is the endeavor (to struggle for a lifetime with our own moral weakness) to act on the urges of conscience and to accept the difficulties that are always associated with the right path, ie to bring sacrifices to the community and making sacrifices for our own development. 

An immoral person travels down the immoral "easier way" and humiliates others, undermines their credit, and destroys their human and moral values in order to make himself or herself appear more and better than in reality.

So a moral man will take on the difficulties of the right way and make the sacrifices necessary for the good of the community and for our own development, and affirming his or her position within the community with real values and merit!

Morality is the prime condition for the survival of life, and its degree is the degree to which conscience is preserved.

A bit more elaborate:

---1. Moral is our vital struggle against our own degenerate, exaggerated desires, the self-serving temptation of evolutionary reward feelings, the temptation of the moral "easier way". These temptations cause human nature to be very easily seduced into the "easier way". These temptations are realized through the falsehoods and lies of self-deception, self-deceiving, self-incrimination (towards ourselves) and hypocrisy, self-glorification (towards the outside world).

---2. One does not accept the difficulties and sacrifices

which in any case bring about the fulfillment of the (useful) life-sustaining instinctual urges for the good, so most people give in to the (harmful) temptations of evil, and they only desire to obtain the physical and emotional evolutionary reward feelings. One many times resists the urges of his conscience (his life-sustaining instincts) and does not obey the (useful) urges to the good.

These conscientious urges mean that we have to make sacrifices and overcome difficulties, but they bring life forward, they ensure the maintenance of life.

How does this work?

---3. Human nature can easily be tempted to go the wrong way, through the selfish, pleasure-seeking seduction of desires. (Human nature can easily be seduced by the pleasure-seeking temptation of desires for its own sake.)

This means that we lose our fair, just, realistic judgment on ourselves and the outside world and our decisions are not on the firm ground of reality. So if you choose the "easier way", you make the wrong decisions! 

This destroys the efficiency of evolution and thus the chances of survival!

---4. Morality was created to counteract the harmful effects of human nature. These detrimental effects are caused by the hedonistic, opportunistic, self-seeking, pleasure-seeking, self-deceptive, hypocritikal charakteristic of human nature. As a result, we judge ourselves and the outside world incorrectly, biased, and thus the basis of our decisions lose their reality and credibility, and thus our decisions become erroneous. This ultimately leads to the fatal deterioration of the efficiency of evolution, which completely destroys the chances of survival.

---5. The definition of moral requirements is independent of human will, so morality is an absolute category. Morality is not the object of any action, it is not equal to immoral compromises, which is called "social morality" (or "any kind of morality", eg "Christian morality" or "common morality") or with by man constructed in a cunning way "moral standards" because they always contain more or less discount in moral requirements.

--- 6. Morality is the meaning of human life, because morality is the main condition for the maintenance of life;

Introduction

Dear Reader!

In my opinion, the previous philosophy based on the results of older anthropological science and older natural sciences has of course summed up the questions of human existence well, but in recent years, decades, our knowledge of man in all branches of human sciences (life sciences) has grown so rapidly that the time has come for a new synthesis that can surely dig deeper into the mysteries of human life, the human soul and the human mind.

That's why this job was done ...

With the knowledge available to me, I try to re-describe morality (and of course people and the most important aspects of human life).

In the world we know, according to our current knowledge, there is only life on our planet, Earth, of which we are the most advanced version, the humanity.

- How was philosophy formed and what was its purpose?

I think philosophy was created by the guilt of humanity (bad conscience) because we have deviated from evolution based on following our life-instincts and following our conscience, thereby jeopardizing the efficiency of evolution and thus the survival of life.

This threat comes from the human mentality, the human nature, which is lecherous (pleasure-seeker), seeking the easier way to gain evolutionary reward feelings (pleasure, joy, happiness, pride, etc.) at all costs, even at the cost of immorality, not accepting the difficulties of the right way.

I think bad conscience - that is, remorse - comes from our instincts. The urges of our instincts are, I think, derived from the very close and deep interplay and collaboration of our genetic material with our minds, and our conscience transmits them to our consciousness.

- What kind of living being is man?

Man is an integral and crucial part of evolution, but he has endangered the function of evolution and thus the survival of life due to his extraordinary intellectual ability and his unlimited longing for pleasure.

Man's pleasure-craving  is satisfied by self-deception and hypocrisy. While hypocrisy already exists in the most advanced vertebrates, only man is, to my knowledge, capable of self-deception (self-delusion).
So we can describe the human being as a grain of sand and even as a gravelly gravel that has stalled the previously efficient machine of LIFE (evolution), but the machine will eventually break down the gravel and continue to work ...
So we can describe the human being as a grain of sand and even as a gravelly gravel that has stalled the previously efficient machine of LIFE (evolution), but the machine will eventually break down the gravel and continue to work ...

- What is the purpose of human life?
In my view, the purpose of human life, as with all forms of life, is obviously the survival of human life, and thus of life and living nature.

- What is the meaning of human life for an individual?

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Contents of the Chapters


- Chapter 1: The relationship between evolution and morality

1.1. Structure and operation of our evolutionary system

1.1.1. Our instincts
1.1.2. Our main impulses are:
- the instinctive constraint of seeking false joy,
- our constraints that are useful for sustaining life; these are our moral urges
- our impulses that are harmful for sustaining life; these are our immoral urges
1.1.2.1. The instinctive constraint of false pleasure-seeking, that is self-indulgence
1.1.2.2. Our moral impulses
1.1.2.3. Our immoral impulses
1.1.3. Morality
1.1.3.1. Why is it always more difficult for the moral way than the immoral "easier way?"
1.2. Human nature
1.3. Our desires, our life-sustaining instincts, the connection between seduction and conscience
1.3.1. About our desires, in generally
1.3.2. The role of our desires in the realization of instinct motives
1.3.3. About our instincts
1.3.4. About seduction
1.3.5. About conscience
1.4. Cosmic morality
1.5. The meaning of life
1.6. Cultural evolution
1.7. Peccadillo (fallibility), self-deception--hypocrisy, the false self-esteem and the false sense of community
1.7.1. The peccadillo (fallibility)
1.7.2. Self-deception--hypocrisy
1.7.3. False self-esteem and false sense of community
1.7.4. Parallels with the concepts of Carl R. Rogers, the need for self-acceptance (self-esteem) and the instinctive evaluation process (conscience)
1.8. About the values

- Chapter 2: The Origin, Concept, Functioning, and Needlessness of Transcendence and Self-Transcendence

- Chapter 3: What's New in General Philosophy of Morality?

3.1. Mostly in the interpretation of morality

3.2. A new interpretation of the operation of evolution 
3.3. In the interpretation of the role of conscience

3.4. In the system of desires to fulfill our instinctive urges

3.5. In the role of community instinct

3.6. In the creation of false community instincts

3.7. A New Understanding of Self-Esteem Compulsion (Instinct for Increasing Community Authority, Creating Ranking Instinct)

3.8. In the instinctive compulsion of false self-esteem

3.9. The (evolutionary) rewarding feelings

3:10. The (evolutionary) crime-deterrent feelings

3:11. Our motivations for good

3:12. Our inducements to wrong

3:13. The value, the values, the order of values

3:14. God is the personification of our instincts

03:15. Becoming of transcendence as unnecessary

3:16. The origin of self-transcendence; and self-transcendence as our conscience

3:17. Is morality an absolute category or a matter of social bargaining?

3:18. The spokesman of our instincts (our conscience) comes from the combined work of hereditary genetic information and the brain, and means constant moral scrutiny!



- Chapter 4: Concept Collection for "The General Theory of Morals"

4.1. Harcz, László: Concept Collection for "The General Theory of Morals, A-É"
https://thephilosophyoftheevolution.blogspot.com/2018/11/41-harcz-laszlo-az-evolucio-filozofiaja_4.html

4.2. Harcz László: Concept Collection for "The General Theory of Morals, F-K"
https://thephilosophyoftheevolution.blogspot.com/2018/11/42-harcz-laszlo-az-evolucio-filozofiaja.html

4.3. Harcz László: Concept Collection for "The General Theory of Morals, L-Z"
https://thephilosophyoftheevolution.blogspot.com/2018/11/41-harcz-laszlo-az-evolucio-filozofiaja.html

(1.1.3.1. So why is the moral path always harder? The harder but moral way is always harder than the easier but immoral way because in order to satisfy our community instinct, we have to give up much of our selfish individual interest for the benefit of our community. On the other hand, in order to satisfy our ranking instinct (that is, compulsion of the self-esteem), we achieve our community rank by actually (really) increasing our own worth, not by falsely reducing the appearance of the values of the rivals, that is, not by stinging, debilitating, deliberately destroying!)