The Pre-Socratics – Q1: What is morality?
Part II of II
...The pre-Socratics intuitively understood the concept regarding equality of unique entities of individuality but the pre-Socratics lacked a philosophical model rationalizing such a concept.
It was Aristotle who initiated the concept of metaphysics.
Aristotle understood Zeno’s paradoxical concepts, understood the concept of an existence ‘beyond’- meta ‘the physical’ – physics.
The concept of a ‘location’ beyond the physical universe may not have been the perception Aristotle grasped but today science, observations, suggests such an existence may in fact be the ‘location’ within which our universe lies.
Should a ‘location’ literally exist ‘outside’ our universe or should the ‘location’ within which our universe exists be of a slightly different perceptual orientation, the concept of the physical not being the ‘greater’ reality still emerges as a rational/reasonable concept.
But what does metaphysics have to do with morality?
The foundation/rationality regarding the establishment of morals begins with an understanding of the location of our very existence.
1. If we exist solely in a physical world then physical hedonism/materialism becomes the foundation of our morality.
2. If we exist solely in an abstractual world then abstractual hedonism/altruism becomes the foundation of our morality.
v
The point: We know we exist in a physical world so it would appear that materialism would be the foundation for our moralities.
This work, The War and Peace of a New Metaphysical Perception, however, suggest that we do not exist solely in a physical world nor do we exist solely in an abstractual world.
Rather this work suggests we exist in a physical world, which in turn exists solely in an abstractual world.
The result of such a model suggests materialism is the foundation of morality for the short term but in the long term, in terms of the most fundamental of foundations regarding morality, the model suggests altruism is the foundation of morality.
Morality is thus steeped in an understanding of the abstractual versus our present perception of morality being steeped in an understanding of the physical.
End