László Harcz:
The general theory of moral and values 3.0.
The enjoyment-dependent, hedonistic humanity
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Content
Abstract-1: The most important value is life
Abstract-2: The roots of the morality
Preface-0: Philosophy and morality viewed from the perspective of common sense
Preface-1: Entrust the guarding of the cabbage to a goat?!!!!!
Preface-2: The relationship between human falsehoods and evolution
Preface-3: Approached from the perspective of rewarding feelings
Preface-4: From the point of view of values
Preface-5: From the point of view of solidarity
Preface-6: The functioning of the human soul and morality
Preface-7: The long-term chances of life on earth and the factors affecting them
Preface-8: Examining morality and the meaning of life, the "9 points"
Preface-9: Concept of morality
Preface-10: Introduction
The contents of the following chapters
Chapter 1.: The
connection between evolution and morality, in more detail
1.1. The
structure and operation of our evolutionary system
1.1.1. About
our instincts
1.1.2. Our
main impulses, the instinctive compulsion to seek false pleasure, our impulses
that lead to good and tempt us to evil
1.1.2.1. The
instinctive compulsion to seek false pleasure, the pursuit of pleasure
1.1.2.2. Our
good impulses (Our urges to do good)
1.1.2.3. Our
urges and inclinations that lead to evil
1.1.2.4.
Immorality
1.1.3.
Morality
1.1.3.1.
Why is the right, moral way always more difficult than the immoral, "easy
way"?
1.1.3.2.
What is self-deception and hypocrisy?
1.1.4.
About values
1.2. About
human nature
1.3. Our
desires, our life-sustaining instincts, seduction and conscience, and their
relationship
1.3.1. About
our desires in general
1.3.2. The
role of our desires in realizing the urges of our instincts
1.3.3. About
our instincts
1.3.4. About
seduction
1.3.5. About
the conscience
1.4. On cosmic
morality
1.5. The
meaning of life
1.6. Cultural
evolution
1.7.
Fallibility, self-deception and hypocrisy, false self-esteem and a false sense
of community (false community sacrifice)
1.7.1. The
fallibility
1.7.2.
Self-deception and hypocrisy
1.7.3. False
self-esteem and a false sense of community
Chapter 2.: The
origin, concept, operation and obsolescence of transcendence and
self-transcendence
Chapter 3.:
What innovations does the "General theory of morality and values"
bring to philosophy?
3.1. Novelty:
Mainly in the interpretation of morality
3.2. Novelty:
In a new interpretation of how evolution works
3.3. Novelty:
In the interpretation of the role of conscience
3.4. Novelty:
In the system of desires, to obey the urges of our instincts
3.5. Novelty:
In the role of community instinct
3.6. Novelty:
In the creation of the false community instinct
3.7. Novelty:
In a new interpretation of the self-esteem compulsion (the self-esteem
compulsion is the instinct to increase authority within the community, the
implementer of the ranking instinct)
3.8. Novelty:
In creation and in role of the instinctive compulsion of false self-esteem
(commonly known as false self-esteem)
3.9. Novelty:
The role and functioning of (evolutionary) rewarding feelings
3.10. Novelty:
The role and functioning of (evolutionary) punitive-deterrent feelings
3.11. Novelty:
The role and operation of our positive impulses, of our good impulses (of our
urges to do good)
3.12. Novelty:
The role and operation of our impulses and tendencies that lead to evil
3.13. Novelty:
The role of value, of values, and of the value system
3.14. Novelty:
God is the personification of our instincts
3.15. Novelty:
The origin of transcendence and its becoming redundant
3:16. Novelty:
The Origin of self-Transcendence; self-Transcendence as our conscience
3.17. New:
Morality is an absolute category and not a matter of social negotiation!
3.18. New: The
advocate of our instincts (our conscience) comes from the combined work of
inherited genetic information and the brain, and means constant moral control!
Dear Reader!
This writing is about the survival of life, human morality, the human soul and human nature. The starting line of thought can be read in the Abstracts and "Foreword-0-10":
Abstract
In living nature, all the properties of living beings serve the survival of life. In the case of animal-type species, this is ensured by the urges of the life-sustaining instincts, and the life experiences of the generations are continuously incorporated into them. In the human world, the main value, the survival of life, is also helped by the urges of life-sustaining instincts.
Keeping the word of conscience is always associated with difficulties and sacrifices, which is why the question of morality already arises in the human race, since making the right decision, following the right path, is always more difficult than the so-called going the "easy way", so it requires the right decision always the human (moral!) added value that morality provides.
The degree of morality is proportional to the extent to which we obey the word of our conscience, i.e. the extent to which we are able and willing to undertake by obeying the word of our conscience, i.e. the so-called "the right way", the difficulties, obligations and sacrifices associated always with the right decision.
The shortest description of the physiological basis of morality:
-1 The survival of life in a human (animal) relationship is aided by the impulses of our life-sustaining instincts.
-2 Since complying with these urges is always more difficult than doing nothing or always doing the easiest things to do, our desires help us to obey our instinctive urges, take on the necessary difficulties and sacrifices, and thus stay on the right path.
-3 Our desires are fulfilled and bring feelings of reward (happiness, joy, good conscience) when we obey our life-sustaining instinctual urges, accept the difficulties and sacrifices that always come with it — and thus we manage to stay on the right path.
Up to point 3, our instincts and desires work in the same way even in the most advanced animal species.
-4 Man is the first species that is able to deceive itself with falsehoods and make itself believe that it has fulfilled the impulses of the life-sustaining instincts even when the exact opposite has happened. So a person is able to make himself and his environment believe that he is on the right path, even though in reality he has chosen the easier path and is actually acting against the interests of the survival of life. People do all this in order to get the rewarding feelings despite choosing the easier way and to avoid the feelings of guilt and deterrence. Based on historical experience so far, it has unfortunately become obvious that almost all people, in almost all cases, choose the easy way, the immoral solution, and thereby harm the commandment to preserve life.
I think the only way to get out of this situation is if we make people aware of their moral functioning and make it clear to everyone that this path, this behavior, leads to the destruction of life. So, instead of the current, chaotic system of ideas, we would make everyone aware of the dangers inherent in the current moral practice, we would publish the new concept of morality, the whole new philosophical paradigm, which I described in "The General Theory of Morality and Values".
Abstract-2: The roots of morality
Obviously, no one disputes that the greatest value is life, the maintenance of life.
The maintenance of life is most aided by the promptings of our life-sustaining instincts, but since obeying these promptings is always more difficult than disobeying them, desires have arisen which create an irresistible compulsion to satisfy them; to obey the urges of our life-sustaining instincts; because if we obey them, we get the most desirable feelings of our life, the rewarding feelings in return from our instincts; but if we don't obey these urges, then we have to suffer the most terrible feelings of guilt and deterrence because of our moral weakness, that is, because we didn't stay on the right path and chose the easier path, because we didn't accept the difficulties and sacrifices that come with staying on the right path.
The human being can therefore always choose: either he obeys the urges of his life-sustaining instincts (that is, his conscience), and assumes the difficulties and sacrifices that always come with fulfilling them, and stays on the "right path"; in this case, you get reward feelings in return; happiness, joys, a good conscience, peace of mind - or if you don't obey your life-sustaining instincts, the urges of your conscience, then instead of the most pleasant feelings of human life, you have to suffer the feelings of guilt and deterrence; remorse, fear, anxiety, terror, even to the point of death...
The satisfaction of desires thus offers to the individual the greatest temptations of human life, the wildest pleasures and the satisfaction of his most desired feelings.
Most people cannot resist these temptations and want to get to these physical and mental rewarding feelings at all costs, that is, physical pleasure and spiritual-emotional rewards, joys, and happiness, since these are the most wonderful experiences of human life.
He can achieve this easily: he "simply" has to give up his moral stance and become abject; which means that he must practice some kind of fraud, forgery, meanness; so you have to deceive yourself (this is self-deception) and the outside world (this is hypocrisy). Self-deception-hypocrisy is mostly active in self-glorification and moral self-exculpation, it always embodies lies, fraud, pretense, slander, exclusion, racism, etc.: some kind of meanness.
Therefore, morality depends on how we satisfy our desires: we obey our life-sustaining instincts, the urges of our conscience, and we accept the difficulties and sacrifices that always accompany the former urges - or we only satisfy these urges in a deceptive, lying way, and essentially the we refuse impulses leading to a moral path.
The natural moral system and value system at work in us, which is also supported by our instincts, means that we can achieve a satisfying mood, peace of mind, but especially happiness only if and to the extent that we are valuable and moral.
This is what human life is about, that we constantly avoid moral responsibility by moral self-exoneration, fraud, lies, committing any kind of vileness, so that our name and person remain apparently "clean", at least apparently, because the greatest value is (would be) morality, and the a person wants to appear (at least outwardly!...) innocent, decent, moral, and therefore valuable...
Preface-0: Philosophy and morality viewed from the perspective of common sense
Life is a self-sustaining, self-operating phenomenon. Its survival is aided by the impulses of our life-sustaining instincts. The functioning of our instincts is made up of our DNA and our individual and community life experiences. Life experiences are continuously integrated into the DNA, and according to the latest research results, this integration takes place during the individual's life, with a slight delay. Thus, the mutations that occur during evolution most likely occur not only randomly, but also purposefully, reducing the harm of occurring risks, external and internal harmful phenomena, and changes!
In the world of life on earth, as we know it, everything serves the survival of life (according to Th. Dobzhansky). However, this is also supported by common sense.
In the case of humans, our life-sustaining urges are carried by the experiences, inclinations, i.e. incentives inherited from all previous generations in our DNA, forming a unified functioning whole with the experiences gained in our individual lives.
The continuation of life is ensured by a process called evolution.
Human evolution moves forward through an infinite course of our choices.
A decision that is made on the basis of false foundations can, at best, with great luck, only by chance produce a correct, well-founded result, such a "decision" based on falsehoods is therefore harmful to evolution and the survival of life.
Thus, in general, we must say that decisions based on falsehoods are unsuitable for sustaining life. And the decisions of humanity, the decisions of almost all people, are almost all like this at the moment; we rush towards the abyss…
The essence of the decision is always whether we have the strength to make a correct and moral decision and to act, that is, to accept the difficulties and sacrifices that come with every correct, moral decision (difficulties to be undertaken in order to improve one's own viability and sacrifices to be made for the benefit of the community).
With animals, the question of morality has not yet arisen, because those that did not obey their instincts were most likely to perish (possibly together with their community).
However, in humans, the sinful desire for rewarding feelings, i.e. the so characteristic human desire for pleasure — the desire! — calls into question the previous omnipotence of life-sustaining instincts, and morality (and its representation, conscience) was created precisely because of this. Man must somehow be returned to the track that has been well-proven over billions of years, and the survival of life must be served, at the cost of any difficulties and sacrifices. The selfishness of the individual must be suppressed for the benefit of the larger community, living nature, for the benefit of LIFE.
Our brain serves the individual's selfishness and desire for pleasure with human falsehoods and frauds. These are realized in the brain by self-deception and self-delusion. In this way, the human mind is even capable of deceiving the life-sustaining instincts, but the conscience notices all deceptions and reacts to them with remorse. So, we call self-deception and self-delusion the flow of fraud, falsehood, lies, in the framework of which we deceive ourselves. Outwardly, towards the outside world, hypocrisy and lies perform the same task. The greatest pest of the human personality and thus of the human world is therefore the self-deception and the hypocrisy…
The survival of human life therefore depends on how successfully our morality (our conscience) prevents our decisions from being based on the image of reality falsified by our self-delusion and hypocrisy.
The main condition for evolution and thus the survival of life is therefore the highest possible standard of humanity's morality.
It is also clear from this that the main task of morality is to maintain life.
This is the closest to Plato's definition of morality, according to which "morality is of divine origin", so human weaknesses cannot influence the content and requirements of morality - fortunately!... And with incredible genius, he guesses the assumption that can be guessed and known today, which identifies the divinity with the genetic conscience inherited in our DNA, which is truly independent of the will, moral weaknesses, and compromises of the individuals and societies of each era. It is true that today's philosophy has not yet accepted the contents of my writing, e.g. a new kind of approach to morality and philosophy, but I hope this happens as soon as possible, because today's conception of philosophy and morality is not suitable for the survival of humanity.
Preface-1: Entrust the guarding of the cabbage to a goat?!!!!!
---1. Morality makes demands on people, since we know that those who behave morally must take on difficulties and make sacrifices. This is why we say that morality is the greatest luxury.
---2. After this, can a sane person think that a person, a group of people, a social stratum, a nation, or a religion can be trusted to define the moral requirements that apply to him or her?! Is it reasonable to leave it up to the person to determine the strictness imposed on him? Entrust the guarding of the cabbage to a goat?! Nowadays, this is precisely the essence of the official paradigm, so morality is now supposed to be a matter of public consensus... In the end, I think this is only good for people to relax these strict moral requirements. Even though Aristotle thought the same was correct, this is still an unrealistic idea!
---3. According to his teacher, Plato, "morality is of divine origin"! So the same moral requirements apply to all living people! And not by the way, this "divine origin" also means that moral requirements can be considered absolute, primary, above everything else. Of course, they are absolute, since the main task of every living being, including the human being, is to maintain its own life, thereby the life of the human race and the entire living nature. It is no coincidence that the information in our DNA has been accumulating since single-celled organisms... This ensures that the life-sustaining instinctive urges not only serve the survival of human life, but of the entire living nature! For this reason, we "instinctively" protect nature, all life, all living beings that do not want to harm us.
---4. In my interpretation, god means our life-sustaining instincts and our urges resulting from them, that is, our conscience. After all, let's just think about it, these instinctive life-sustaining impulses work in the same way for all people, like divine commands - or like conscience; they affect us in the same way in every moment of our lives, and what is most important: they all help to maintain our lives, they hold us in hand, with an iron fist, with the full rigor of our conscience, just as, in principle, divine providence does the same. The alleged divinity also affects us through our soul, and so does our conscience: but while the existence of God is doubtful, conscience exists in everyone, as confirmed by the saying of Konrad Lorenz: "The traits that exist in all human cultures are obviously inherited, general human traits.” Well, the soul, the conscience is like that!
---5. So then who is right: Plato and me, or Aristotle and official philosophy?!
Preface-2: The relationship between human falsehoods and evolution
"--- 1 Man is a living being, so man is also governed by the requirements of evolution, i.e. the survival of life.
--- 2 Human evolution is realized through the process of decisions of human individuals.
--- 3 The right decision is impossible if the human individual and human society falsify reality, the truth, because a decision based on false foundations usually gives false results. For this reason, most types of falsehood harm evolution, the survival of life.
--- 4 Human behavior is driven in the right direction by our life-sustaining instincts.
--- 5 Our conscience is the conscious advocate of our life-sustaining instinctual urges. He tells us in every minute of our lives what is the right behavior, that is, what serves the survival of human life and the survival of life in general.
In my opinion, obeying the word of our conscience is called morality; and we human individuals are moral to the extent that we manage to obey the word of our conscience.
--- 6 There are therefore two types of human decisions: the right, moral decision and the bad, immoral decision.
In the case of a correct, moral decision, the individual assumes the difficulties and sacrifices that always accompany the execution of life-sustaining instincts (such as altruism, self-criticism, solidarity, mercy, forgiveness, etc.).
In the case of a bad decision, the individual does not accept any difficulties and chooses the easier way.
--- 7 The reason for choosing the easier way is always that we are driven only by the satisfaction of our desires and the acquisition of rewarding feelings (pleasure, success, pride, joy, etc.) and not by the execution of our life-sustaining instinctual urges; we do not accept the difficulties and sacrifices that always accompany a correct, moral decision.
--- 8 Our desires normally encourage the implementation of our life-sustaining instinctual impulses and the realization of the right decision. Because if we choose the right decision and accept the difficulties that come with it, our conscience (the advocate of our instincts in our consciousness) gives us rewarding feelings. Rewarding feelings are pleasures and satisfaction on the physical level, and countless forms of joy and happiness on the spiritual-emotional level.
--- 9 However, if we choose the easier way in order to satisfy our desires as quickly and as easily as possible and to enjoy the rewarding feelings, then in any case we can only achieve this by falsification (we falsify our own value to our advantage, the moral value of our rivals to the to their disadvantage, we distort and falsify reality, thus deceiving ourselves and the outside world, and thus neutralizing the functioning of evolution, condemning humanity and even living nature to extinction).
--- 10 In the case of choosing the easier path, our instincts (our conscience) send us guilty and deterrent feelings, pain on the physical level, anxiety, fear, terror on the mental-emotional level - up to the point of death... These with a greater or lesser delay we are severely punished by the selfish, cruel, merciless, etc. because of our decision and behavior, and they only pass if we make good the damage and suffering we have caused, that is, if we remove the obstacles from the path of evolution.
--- 11 Our morality is therefore decided during decisions, by choosing the right path or the easier path, by following or ignoring the word of conscience.
--- 12 And the survival of life depends on whether a sufficiently large proportion of human society is capable of a sufficient degree of morality. Thus, moral responsibility is shared, all people are responsible for the social enforcement of morality, and ultimately for the survival of life.
--- 13. In addition to today's destructive military capability, a sustainable life can only be ensured by comprehensive, free education, placing political leadership on a moral basis and creating a humane, common moral system and value system as quickly as possible.
Preface-3: Approached from the rewarding feelings
For the survival of animal-like - and human - life in living nature, our life-sustaining instincts refer rewarding feelings to the individual who is able and willing to obey the urges of our life-sustaining instincts.
And those who do not fulfill - in the case of humans - the urges of our life-sustaining instincts, must suffer feelings of guilt and deterrence, which can range from the mildest sense of guilt and remorse, to anxiety and fear, to insanity and terror leading to death.
The application of reward feelings and guilt-deterrent feelings is therefore the most important incentive for the survival of life in the individuals of the human race.
Our desires ensure that these rewarding feelings have the strongest possible effect on us. Our desires try to compel us with an almost irresistible force, so that we can obtain and experience the rewarding feelings and avoid the guilt-deterring feelings.
In animals, for successful evolution, it is necessary that they obey the urges of their life-sustaining instincts, and the evolutionarily correct, desirable action always wins the allocation of rewarding feelings from the instincts and the brain.
The mental-brain abilities of animals are not sufficient for self-deception, that is, for pretending to carry out evolutionary, instinctive urges, but not actually obeying the urges of their life-sustaining instincts. So animals are unable to obtain rewarding feelings by self-deception and self-deception!
Even the representatives of the most advanced animal species are capable of hypocrisy, pretense, that is, outwardly directed fraud and falsification, but I think only humans are capable of self-deception!
A person is therefore capable of obtaining these rewarding feelings (pleasure, joy, happiness, etc.) with falsehood, i.e. with self-deception and self-delusion! This happens when the individual allows the immoral, hedonistic pursuits to prevail, in which case the acquisition of pleasure is the most important thing for the individual, and the moral aspects (essentially the aspects of the survival of life) are ignored.
By following this path (the "easier path"), the individual is freed from taking on the difficulties and making the sacrifices that always come with moral and fair action.
The human brain, nervous system, and mental abilities already allow self-deception, that is, for the human individual to only pretend to obey instinctive impulses, to just pretend to take on the difficulties that always come with these steps, to make the sacrifices that must be made for the community - and thus cause damage to evolution, to the chances of survival of life.
Thus, morality necessarily appears in human individuals at this point in evolution! This is embodied in our consciousness by the conscience, which is the (conscious) advocate of life-sustaining instinctive urges. The conscience is able to penetrate the consciousness and establish a connection between our evolutionary (that is, the life-sustaining instinct) urges and our consciousness. The majority of humanity treats the conscience as a "god" because it is present in every person, affects every person in the same way (supports the survival of life), and is present in every moment of our life - as if our conscience were a god...
Even in the Christian Bible, the word "conscience" can be substituted for the word "god" in most places, the sentence will essentially mean the same thing!
I already note here that, of course, it cannot be ruled out that god, the deity, really exists, but based on today's scientific knowledge, my smallness explains the existence of god by the fact that the supposed effect of the deity is completely identical in appearance to the effect of our life-sustaining instinctive impulses.
Morality (conscience) is absolutely necessary in man, because man is capable of fraudulently obtaining reward feelings used as reward and incentive feelings in evolution.
This fraud (self-deception, hypocrisy) can only be suppressed with the help of morality (conscientiousness!). Only with the help of morality can one resist those hedonistic, immoral pursuits that treat the acquisition of evolutionary rewarding feelings as their main goal, disregarding all moral considerations, disregarding truth; in doing so, they unleash their individual selfishness and desire for pleasure, putting the survival of humanity and all living nature in great danger.
Preface-4: From the point of view of values
In this short review, I describe the core of evolutionary philosophy and the "General Theory of Morality and Values", the essence of which is that everything "existing" has as much importance and represents as much value as that "existing" is useful and important for the survival of life.
1. Feelings of reward (pleasure, joy, happiness, pride, etc.) are obtained from instincts when we fulfill the urges of our life-sustaining instincts (our conscience), when we accept the difficulties associated with them, i.e. when we make the necessary sacrifices for our own for the survival of our lives, for the survival of the community, for the survival of the species, and finally for the survival of the entire living nature, so if we always act as the interests of the survival of life require, that is, we obey the impulses of our life-sustaining instincts.
These urges fall into two main groups:
--- to our sacrifices resulting in the viability of our community, and
--- to our aspirations and behavior that improve our own vitality and thereby strengthen our rank and influence within the community. I have named these aspirations as our "instinctive self-esteem compulsion" (this is approximately the same as our instinctive urges previously known as the "ranking instinct").
The fulfillment of these urges always involves making sacrifices, efforts, struggle, in short: taking on difficulties!
This is moral behavior.
2. But we sabotage the fulfillment of our life-sustaining instincts because of our immoral, pleasure-seeking, opportunistic, lazy mentality, which is always looking for pleasures and the easy way out. Because human nature, if we don't limit it, only strives to obtain the rewarding feelings of physical and mental evolution, because almost all of us and almost always give way to the desires that work in us, we give way to the "compulsion to seek pleasure", the power of our desires.
This is immoral behavior.
3. All of this is done with the help of self-deception and hypocrisy, with the help of which we instinctively convince ourselves and the outside world that we have done what our instinctive impulses, that is, what our conscience (the spokesman for our life-sustaining instincts) wants.
4. In this (false, fraudulent, immoral) way, we can obtain evolutionary rewarding feelings, fulfill our pleasure-seeking desires, but all this is only possible through basic fraud.
5. With this many frauds and falsehoods, we endanger the effectiveness of evolution and thus the survival of life, because our decisions are not based on real, but on false foundations, because we judge the external and/or internal circumstances falsely and incorrectly!
6. Therefore, moral behavior is the meaning of human life, because it ensures the effectiveness of our decisions, thus the survival of life!
The main value in human life is therefore morality!
Preface-5: From the point of view of solidarity
The essence of the general theory of morality and values, illuminated from the perspective of global solidarity, in view of the current emergency in relation to humanity and all living nature:
1. Due to overpopulation and irresponsible, selfish, excessive pollution of the environment, humanity has now reached such a situation that if we do not act with sufficient speed and extent, if we do not reduce the pollution of the environment to near zero practically immediately, then humanity will become extinct within a few decades, along with most of the living nature.
2. There is an urgent need for joint, human-level action and the making of huge sacrifices.
The richest must give up most of their profits, the middle class must give up most of their comfort, and the largest masses must demonstrate greater effort and diligence in implementing the necessary environmental protection measures.
3. This is only possible in the case of the realization of full racial, humanity-level solidarity, global solidarity.
4. And it is quite obvious that there is only a chance for global solidarity to be realized if a single, common system of values is formed.
This common value system is easily derived from the fact that
--- humanity is a single species, and the genetic material and instinctual urges of the individuals within a species are predominantly the same, since this is the only way the self-identity and viability of the species is preserved;
--- if we finally acknowledge and emphasize that the main helper, the main condition for the survival of life in the human race is morality;
--- following from the above, the common value system is created by defining the common moral system and having it accepted and implemented as soon as possible.
This paper aims to achieve this goal.
Preface-6: The functioning of the human soul and morality
1. The human being: The human being is a living being, a creature with the most developed brain of the living nature, who has self-awareness and self-reflection in a unique way in the terrestrial living world, so he is able to place himself in the living nature existing on our planet and in the part known by us, humans of the universe.
2. Evolution: The individuals of the human race, like all living beings, are able to adapt to changing conditions, so that the individuals, through them their species, and through the species, life survives. Nature achieves this with the help of mutations and selection. This is evolution itself.
3. DNA, our instinctive impulses: Human individuals inherit the instinctive information from their parents in their genetic material, which has been accumulating in DNA since the era of single-celled organisms, and which enables the construction of their bodies and the adaptations necessary for survival. The mind of the individual supplements this with its own life experiences, including the life experiences of the human community (which is socially inherited in the form of culture to the next era, the next generation). So, the information inherited in our instincts is supplemented by our mind with knowledge from society and from ourselves, and our mind, our brain, creates our life-sustaining instinctive impulses from these.
4. Our conscience: Our conscience makes us aware of the instructions from our life-sustaining instinctual impulses and translates them into our native language, so in our consciousness at every moment of our life there is that thought, conscious impulse, that thought and action guidance, instruction that we must carry out, to act right then and there in terms of sustaining life. All this is called conscience.
5. Our desires, rewarding feelings, punishing-deterrent feelings: The implementation of life-sustaining instinctive urges - the voice of our conscience -, the "right action and intention", "the right way" in every case comes with difficulties and sacrifices to the "easier way" compared (see point 7!). In order for human individuals to accept these difficulties and actually carry out the instructions of their conscience, a system of desires was created in the course of evolution, the rewarding feelings that make right action and intention attractive were developed; and those who are more inclined to err on the wrong path and choose the easier path, the "deterrent and guilty" feelings (pain, anxiety and terror, even to the point of death!) try to keep them on the right path. Desires force us with elemental force to obtain rewarding feelings, and fear motivates everyone to avoid guilt-deterrent feelings!
6. The lure of rewarding feelings: (pleasure, satisfaction on the physical plane, and feelings that bring joy and happiness in our psyche) are understandably the most attractive feelings of human life, and our desires encourage us in every moment of our lives to obtain these blissful , attractive feelings.
7. The right way, the easier way: Rewarding and happy feelings can be obtained basically in two ways: by following the "right way", obeying the voice of our conscience (that is, our life-sustaining instinctual urges); or by taking the "easier path", with passive acquiescence (lazy doing nothing) or with fraud and falsification, but in any case ignoring the word of conscience.
8. The right way is always more difficult than the easier way, because it definitely requires an expenditure of energy; by making mental preparations for the right, conscientious action and making emotional sacrifices, renouncing the quick, unprincipled, hedonistic satisfaction of our desires; and we directly implement the word of our conscience with the right, appropriate action.
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