A Corpus of Meat
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:20 am
A Corpus of Meat
Religions have had their fashions and the ‘secular’ religion of today has its fashions.
Usually by being selective of values.
Objects are not good or bad and are have moral equality in that respect.
A corpus of meat is in that category, with all human being equal as objects.
But we are also alive and sapient, and each one of us is therefore an ethical corpus.
Freedom and equality are values within that ethical corpus, and no values exist outside.
We are equal in being able to employ our ethic for ‘good’ or ‘evil’ according to the ethic we are and adopt.
But, in the same way as we had to identify ourselves by our religion, so we must identify ourselves by our individual and shared ethic, or there is chaos.
Where we have risen out of chaos into some form of law and order, there is a tendency to equate morality with merely acting within the law – which may be quite draconian.
Above that there is the genuine ethics of society.
Our corporate tendency today is to move towards an ethic of autonomous individualism, that barely recognises the existence of either altruist society, or fealty to the state in some form.
We may become a world of globalised commercialism, rather than commerce serving society.
Religions have had their fashions and the ‘secular’ religion of today has its fashions.
Usually by being selective of values.
Objects are not good or bad and are have moral equality in that respect.
A corpus of meat is in that category, with all human being equal as objects.
But we are also alive and sapient, and each one of us is therefore an ethical corpus.
Freedom and equality are values within that ethical corpus, and no values exist outside.
We are equal in being able to employ our ethic for ‘good’ or ‘evil’ according to the ethic we are and adopt.
But, in the same way as we had to identify ourselves by our religion, so we must identify ourselves by our individual and shared ethic, or there is chaos.
Where we have risen out of chaos into some form of law and order, there is a tendency to equate morality with merely acting within the law – which may be quite draconian.
Above that there is the genuine ethics of society.
Our corporate tendency today is to move towards an ethic of autonomous individualism, that barely recognises the existence of either altruist society, or fealty to the state in some form.
We may become a world of globalised commercialism, rather than commerce serving society.