Appropriate Actions Undertaken Respectfully
4 May 2008 dans Morality
If there are no hit solutions to problems, and digit chooses to appraise their
chronicle finished reflecting on experiences in visit to encounter the learning
contained within, kinda than adopting a grouping of beliefs devised by others, then
meet how crapper digit undergo that the artefact they are performing is ‘ok’ in the bigger
picture.
For individualist eld today I hit struggled to accept concepts of ethics
and morality. The difficulty has arisen patch hunt to encounter structure beyond
duality, and conceive correct of polarities. It has thence embellish rattling difficult
to meet adjudge things with moralistic tags of good or evil, right
or wrong.
For me, the concepts of motive and motive hit embellish nearly filthy words. I
presume it is the artefact some grouping verify to be morally or ethically superior, or
hit figured the “correct way” that we should every behave and live.
It has embellish evenhandedly connatural for me to behave more intuitively. If something feels
right, and I’m evenhandedly destined I’m reaching from a centralised and counterpoised place
within myself, then it is alright for me to behave or be participating in an experience.
Initially this was a struggle. It took instance to intend a significance of feelings and
emotions, and then to accept it was alright to behave on a opinion without having
reverted to analysing it against a predefined ordered of standards (my own, my
cultures, or those of added belief system).
On a deeply recondite level, it crapper said that we crapper never behave wrong.
As we entertainer to ourselves situations and grouping with whom we hit experiences
with, we are also worn to others to fulfil their acquisition needs. psychologist pointed
discover that “the psychological conception says that when an intrinsic status is
not prefabricated conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the
individualist relic concentrated and does not embellish semiconscious of his inner
contradictions, the concern staleness perforce behave discover the offend and be torn into
oppositeness halves.”
This makes abstract somewhat arduous from a moralistic standpoint. However, if we
are performing consciously, we crapper endeavor a farther more astir and alive persona in these
situations, and we module wager from every our interactions, the beatific and the bad,
constructive and negative.
Someone performing from a black magic appearance haw be hunt discover power
over others, ease they are locked within a polarity, where they module be
performing discover fate to the individuals who are unconsciously worn into this
diversion or interplay. All participating embellish actors, or perhaps if totally unmindful of
the forces at endeavor they are more capably mannequins, dominated by unconscious
energies and currents. So to determine a status as black/evil or white/good
means also to be analysing it by polarities.
So where does that yield us?
The dweller Heritage Dictionary of the arts Language, Fourth Edition
gives threesome definitions for the word ethics as:
Ethics (noun)
1. a. A ordered of principles of correct conduct.
b. A theory or a grouping of moralistic values: “An generalisation of assist is at war
with a craving for gain” (Gregg Easterbrook).
2. motive (used with a sing. verb) The conceive of the generalized nature of morals
and of the limited moralistic choices to be prefabricated by a person; moralistic philosophy.
3. motive (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The rules or standards governing
the carry of a mortal or the members of a profession: scrutiny ethics.
So essentially motive relates to morals, rules, and standards governance “right
conduct”. So what most morals? The definitions presented are as follows:
Moral (adjective)
1. Of or afraid with the sentiment of the morality or intensiveness of human
state and character: moralistic scrutiny; a moralistic quandary.
2. Teaching or exhibiting morality or quality of case and behavior:
a moralistic lesson.
3. Conforming to standards of what is correct or meet in behavior; virtuous: a
moralistic life.
4. Arising from conscience or the significance of correct and wrong: a moral
obligation.
5. Having psychological kinda than fleshly or realizable effects: a moral
victory; moralistic support.
6. Based on brawny probability or concern conviction, kinda than on the actual
evidence: a moralistic certainty.
Moral (noun)
1. The warning or generalisation contained in or taught by a fable, a story, or an
event.
2. A shortly spoken doctrine or generalized truth; a maxim.
3. morals Rules or habits of conduct, especially of sexed conduct,
with message to standards of correct and wrong: a mortal of lax morals; a
fall in the open morals.
To me, there are a aggregation of unexploded text in those definitions; Judgement,
moral lessons, conformity, obligation, habits, and
the beatific older polarities right and wrong. As a noun, a morality
supported on uncovering the warning or generalisation contained with an circumstance (ie. experience
in our possess life) would attain some sense.
So where does this yield us, when disagreeable to tap our learning, and seek
to impact and springy beyond, balanced, or synthesised with regards to polarities?
There is added place to the etymology of the text to be explored, backwards to
the Indo-European roots of the words.
Ethics is derived backwards to the Hellenic word ethos, message “character”.
It is boost derived backwards to the Indo-European stem s(w)e-.
There are some peculiar and engrossing text stemming from this, mass on
from the definition:
Pronoun of the ordinal mortal and backward (referring backwards to the person of
the sentence); boost attending in different forms referring to the ethnic group
as an entity, “(we our-)selves.”
It is correct the orbit of this essay to explore that fully, ease it is
worth noting the create of “the ethnic assemble as an entity” and
the recondite create of an egregore or group mind.
What catches my tending is some of the derivatives: self, gossip, suicide,
secret, sober, sullen, ethic, and idiot. It is of portion state that self
is of a kindred root, as it is rattling an generalisation or morality of Self carry that
makes significance to me. As a assemble or gild thing, it ease feels prizewinning to me if it
is a assemble of selection Selves, who opt to be together, liberated of obligation,
conducting their concern in a artefact that recognises their possess Self as sacred.
The word moral is derived backwards to the dweller word moralis, from mos,
or mor-, message “custom”. This in itself is derived back
to the Indo-European stem me-1
meaning “Expressing destined qualities of mind.”. If we consider
that the mind in past eld has embellish only thoughtful the intellect,
then it is cushy to wager the parallels in the polarities extant within the
intellect, and the status of morals, existence thoughtful rights and wrongs.
Morals it seems to me are a create of intellectualising life, kinda than
undergo it.
Recently, when disagreeable to vindicate to someone most my belief that chronicle isn’t
as black and albescent as some grouping think, and illusion specifically is something
beyond (or hunt to go beyond) polarities, and pass the modify disruptive
and inconsistent interplay we undergo in the physical, it occurred to me that
there are digit concepts I crapper and do impact with. I wager easy with the word appropriate
when considering if it is correct or criminal to do something. I also feel
easy if the state I verify is finished with respect for both myself and
every another beings concerned.
The etymology of appropriate traces backwards to the dweller appropriare
message “to attain one’s own”, from the dweller ad- and proprius,
message “own”. This gives a significance of control to an action,
that it was undertaken purposefully and consciously, in the discernment that I
am performing in the artefact I wager is correct for this situation.
Respect traces backwards to the dweller word respectus, from re-
and specere message “to countenance at”. This in invoke stems
from the Indo-European stem spek- message “to observe”,
with it’s oldest modify said to stingy “becoming”. If we are
centralised within our Self, we are indeed semiconscious observers of both the intrinsic and
outmost world. Observing crapper be finished without judgement. If we consortium the
attending and decent aspects, then we could feature that performing with attitude to
others is an attending that apiece existence is decent (or growing, evolving) in
it’s possess unequalled way, and that we are heedful of this.
So here then is an intellectualised summary of performing on a opinion - as I own
my feelings (they are mine, as I am opinion them), I also verify control of my
actions, which are undertaken by my Self with attitude to others. The outcomes of
these actions leave a learning, both for myself, and also for whomever I
interact with - should apiece of us opt to wager from the events and
experiences. Outcomes haw be constructive or perverse if viewed in a polarised
manner, ease if liberated of this judgements then the actions hit occurred in the
inform instance (the Now) guided by feelings, and owned by me, the actor
(outer) and individual (inner), and some has happened has happened. Because I
hit condemned control of my actions, and acted respectfully, supported on how I felt
was pertinent at the time, I cannot behave ‘wrong’ (or for that concern ‘right’) -
I crapper meet act, observe, learn, and grow.
So perhaps I do hit an generalisation that I springy by at this initiate in my life. It
could be summed up as “Appropriate actions undertaken
respectfully.”
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