Harcz
László
A
brief overview of „The philosophy of the Evolution” in 21 points
Desires
and fulfillment
Attracting
the "lighter way" and taking the harder but the right way
The creation and functioning of morality in 21 points
1. Man is a living being, a part of living nature;
2. Living beings want to live instinctively;
3. This is also assured in man by the evolutionary
(life-sustaining) instincts (hereinafter our instincts);
4. About desires: Our instincts awaken the desires within
us to effectively force us to perform the necessary actions to preserve life in
order to accomplish our necessary behavior
5. From the satisfaction of the desires: These
desires are fulfilled by our instincts if we conscientiously carry out the duties,
thought and behavior required by our instincts, which, according to the
experiences saved in our instincts, are important and indispensable for the
survival of life.
At this point, the individual receives as a
fullfilling the evolutionary reward feeling, joy, happiness, or pleasure,
enjoyment, and, in addition, the feeling of pure, calm conscience without which
a person can not live healthy.
6. So we can satisfy our desires in two ways; Remain
on the moral way, by fulfilling our evolutionary duties; Or by choosing a
lighter way by not doing these duties. So during the evolution, the conscience
has been developed in man, which rewards us with the most beautiful, most
pleasurable feelings when we remain on the moral path and undertake the
difficulties, and send us "bad conscience", fear, horror and disease,
if we are to allow the seduction of the "easier way" and thus our
survival chances are hurting. Thus, during evolution, the desire for pure
conscience and spiritual tranquility evolved. This desire rewards us with
different degrees of happiness, from joy to extraordinary happiness, the
so-called ecstasy, which is commonly referred to as "flow" after
Csíkszentmihályi, and I call it "mental orgasm" after the bodily
orgasm.
Our conscience is our primary instinkt for support
for life, and the most important one of our instinctive impulses, wich force us
to "the good way".
7. In animal times: the urges of instincts have been
fully realized by the animals. The individual has always received the reward
feeling for this, and his desire has been satisfied and evolutionish needs are
also fulfilled. Shaping, affectation, simulation, hypocrisy exists even in the
most advanced animals, perhaps even the self-deception too in a modest sense,
since some self-deception is needed for successful hypocrisy. But even the
advanced animal sense of the gorilla, the chimpanzee or the bonobo does not
pose a real threat to living nature because it is not even the most advanced
animal intellect possible.
8. Of the fraud on the human mind: But the emergence
of the human spirit (mind) allowed the people the infinitely pleasant reward
feelings (ego, joy, joy, happiness, etc.) by the fraud of the spirit to win,
even if he do not perform the commands of Instinctive urges, if he does not consider
the word of conscience, if he does not undertake the difficulties that the
conscientious execution of the instinctive instructions would bring with him.
This faulty mind operation and the fact that we
enter into this "lighter way" are called moral weakness, moral
frailty, immorality.
9. About Moral Behavior: If the individual is able
and willing to take on the difficulties or the ability to do so, Is willing to
give up on the unquenchable reward feelings and conscientiously strive to stick
to the behaviors required by the instincts, and to do things that need to be
done, talk about moral behavior, and otherwise, immoral, weak, fallen,
frustrating behaviors.
10. Self-transcendence: the
"self-transcendence" was written by Viktor Frankl, who was a member
of the lineage of Freud, Jung and Adler, and was with Freud from him younger
age, in a spiritually connect.
In my wording, the moral case means that, in
relation to the subject in question (difficulty, task), the individual goes
beyond himself, exceeds himself, confronts himself with challenges in a
"self-transcending" way: the human mind cheat, of not to have to face
the difficulties, chooses the simpler path in an opportunistic, immoral way,
and accepts the constraints which lead to the wrong way, tempt the lighter way.
We can also say that, in a moral case, the
individual overcomes his desires and impulses leading to the bad path, that is,
the selfish, immoral compulsion of lust and self-esteem, simplyer: the
instinctive, hedonistic, opportunistic, elementary compulsion of
pleasure-seeking and of self-esteem.
This constraint can be manifested in two basic
forms: on the one hand, on bodily desires, that is, on "physical
pleasure-seeking", on the other hand, on spiritual and emotional desires,
that is to say, about "pleasure-seeking and happiness-seeking".
11. Regulation of physical desires: the
life-sustaining importance
the suppression of physical desires, I think is that
it regulates the appropriate and efficient management with the resourchen on
the basis of the impulse of our subsistence instincts in order to keep this
regulation to its optimum, but the equitable order of access to resources must
be respected. This corresponds to the order of the hierarchy within the
community, but in any case the fulfillment of the basic needs should also be
assured for the weakest individuals. In addition, the excessive consumption,
the waste and the excess, ie the selfish, opportunistic pleasure-seeking, that
is, also the immoral, oppurtunistic hedonistic excessive consumption should be
prevented.
12. The regulation of spiritual and emotional
aspirations: maintaining non-physical (spiritual and emotional) desires within
reasonable limits represents the majority of the moral struggle in practice, by
the fact that since the appearance of the humanity the evolution and the
preservation of life happens more and more intellectual, nowadays mostly on
cultural, community-wide. Instead of genes, whole communities and even giant cultures
compete for survival and resources as a whole.
13. The two main instinct groups: life-sustaining
instincts are divided into two main groups based on the results of ethology:
the flock (herd)-instinct (the compulsion of attachment to the community) and
the rank instinct (the compulsion of self-esteem). There are many morally
important, virtuous features in both areas where the question of the moral
"easier path" arises because the satisfaction of the affected trait,
attribute, that is, the satisfaction of a natural, evolutionary, instinctive
constraint, so the exercise and observance of the rules of the virtue concerned
brings about difficulties which we all want to avoid instinctively.
For those species that were living in a group (in a
flock or herd) (such as the wolf, monkey, human being), the two most powerful
survival instincts are the flock
instinct (the compulsion to belong to a community) and the ranking instinct
(the compulsion of increasing our ranked place in the ranking list, or the
compulsion of self-esteem) are because the man is protected by the flock, man
will keep alive by the flock with the force and with the security of the
community (that is, the herd's drive), and the rank within the community or
society increases the chances of survival because of the better access to
resources, the access is always proportionate with the social rank in the
community (that is the ranking instinct).
14. The Situation of Today's Western Moral
Philosophy: Today's Western philosophy has come to the point in the
understanding of human nature that "for the realization of morality the
individual has to go beyond his own," so that they have reached the moment
of self-transcendence, some Basic virtues are arbitrarily excited (chosen by
the researcher, how many and which) and the totality of them was appointed as
morality, as "basic moral values".
15. The privileged "main virtues": For
example, Candace E. Vogler (Uni Chicago): courage, moderation, justice,
generosity, humility, gratitude, pity; ///// Jonathan Haidt (New York
University's Stern School of Business) and Craig Joseph in the "Moral
Foundations Theory": Care, Equity, Freedom, Loyalty to the Group,
Authority, Dignity; ///// J. Haidt: In his work: "On the Moral Mind":
Protection, Justice, In-group Loyalty, Authority, Honor.
16. Today's "official, authoritative"
philosophy does not link morality with the maintenance of life, with evolution!
So, the present "leading" philosophy does not associate morality with
the life-sustaining instincts and with the maintenance of life itself, although
I think that it is the most natural starting point that we are living beings
and life wants to live with full Force. From this point of view, from the point
of view of evolution, everything becomes clear, transparent, and rational in
morality, human personality, human behavior, human nature, and everything is
replaced in its own place; And therefore it seems that this is the right
approach! This is perhaps the greatest, fundamental error of today's
philosophy!
17. Role and origin of conscience: Our conscience
always indicates whether we are immoral at the moment or want to deviate from
the right path. Conscience is an existing phenomenon, because in any culture
(and by Konrad Lorenz, it is an existing or even inherited human trait),
it is presumably derived from our genetic material, and presumably, as with our
other instincts, brings the experiences of previous generations with themselves
and communicates with us all this in thought. We know about our genetic
material a thousand times more than a hundred years ago, and in a few decades
we will know a hundred times as much as now. The research continues with great
powers, and year by year surprising and fantastic knowledge emerge from our
inheritance material.
18. Moral is also logically the main condition for
survival: we must decide for our survival, and we need credible knowledge so
that our decisions can be based on solid ground. If in an immoral way, we allow
our mind to commit adulterations, we deprive ourselves of the advantages of
right decisions, so our decisions will be based on a muddy reason, some of them
are taken as a wrong decision, so that our survival finally come in a deadly
danger.
19. About the instinctive compulsion of
self-deception and hypocrisy: our mind falsifies reality (especially in
relation to our own negatives, to get a better picture of ourselves, inside,
about us and also outwards, towards the society ...), our brain tries to accept
this false reality with ourselves and with the help of hypocrisy with the
environment as if it were the true reality.
Thus the moral "easier way" is most
frequently realized.
20. The instinctive compulsion of self-esteem: the
spiritual driving force applied by our hierarchical instinct (by the
instinctive compulsion of our self-respect, self-esteem), which forces all men
to constantly increase their value and prestige, because the higher rank, the
higher the influence in the community (society), the greater the access to
resources of the community, and so the survival chances for ourselves and for
our successor will be significantly increased.
21. The instinctive compulsion of false self-esteem:
Our self-esteem can not be sincerely gratified by most of us, and to develop
and secrecy as valuable as our self-esteem requires. The self-deception here
occurs, and in his usual deceptive way he tries to let himself believe how
excellent we are. And the false self-esteem has already come true, we feel
more, better, more valuable than we really are.
Harcz László
Budapest, the 31. October 2017.
Budapest, the 31. October 2017.
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