Ethics and Morality

The premises of Ethical Spirituality do not make judgments of the right or wrong of natural conditions, but acts as required by the dynamics of present circumstance. Authority for human conduct, exists in the present state of any given circumstance in which the individual corresponds to those conditions.

One cannot automatically associate primitive culture with Ethical Spirituality. Much of primitive culture has been progressive to a limited technological extent. An indicator of progressive materialism is the degree of hierarchal social structure which characterizes and enforces progressive superiority, exploitation, and privilege. In non-progressive cultures of ethically spiritual social philosophy, strict hierarchal social structure to a large degree may be absent. The individual may identify with the group whole as opposed to personal material advancement and a need for superior individuality. When the drive for the identity of material superiority as the individual attainment of Excess and Profit is not existent, the necessity and desire to transform, destroy and exploit is limited. Much of the drive to every form of crime, perversion, war, greed, exploitation, theft, usury, murder or torture, so prevalent and which pretty much identities modern materialist culture is absent. Violence and emotional friction are not eliminated but may be greatly reduced.

With the introduction of Excess and Profit, the natural ethical mandate becomes a prohibition upon human progressive development. There then becomes the necessity for a new authority for human activity, behavior and conduct. This authority is Morality. If authority, as paragons for human activity and behavior, do not already naturally exist, consequence must be invented which defines what can be altered, destroyed and exploited and what cannot, which takes the form of moral authority. Moral authorities, as anything from Confucism to organized religion, and the precepts of societal constitutional and legal systems or cultural mores, may be derived from Divine sources, from the teachings of profits and saints, or are evolved through the ordinary workings of culture and social institutions. They represent authority which is not apparent in the natural world, and are represented to be advanced, higher, progressed and superior models for human conduct.

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