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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (26177)5/28/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
I took a moment to read Cobalt's reply and I'd like to extend it. Instead of trying to float "morality just is" as a sufficient ontology, perhaps it can be used as a recognizedly temporary fallback. The source or nature of morality is much less important to me than its shape, its operational parameters. "Why is it right?" is a tougher, more theism-affine question than simply "Is it right?" In between falls the Engineer's Question "How or within what boundaries is it right?"

It is perhaps most pleasing to work ethical questions out from a guiding set of first principles. For this reason people will be forever (?) drawn to religion or myth to receive a blueprint of the underlying principles of morality. A set of axioms from which the finer points can be rationally or near-rationally derived.
I'm suggesting "maybe it isn't that simple". I'm not in a position to prove such a supposition - of course.

My inmost prejudice is that our morality, our spirit, our God-awareness are all consequences of, and completely contained within, our material(and energetic) composition. I can't prove this either, but so far it rings true to me.
By energy I mean the mundane physical quantity. Something measurable on a dial. Not the appropriation of the term by modern spiritists and "new agers" to grant a tinge of scientific cachet to their concept of spirit-force.
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