Birth of Morality

Essence

Ethics exists when:

1. There is something to improve & capacity to improve it

Ethics stops existing when:

1. There is nothing to improve

2. There is something to improve, but no capacity to influence it

Elaboration

Cause of Ethics

1. Existence

2. Experience

3. Ethical Spectrum

   • Distinctions of experience by preference positive>neutral>negative

4. Efficacy

   • Capacity to influence the ethical spectrum

5. Ethics

   • Intention to cause constructiveness towards the ethical spectrum

   • Starts as soon as both the 1) possibility of improvement and 2) the possibility to influence it

Stop of Ethics

• When one cause within the chain is removed

• No Existence

  • Without there being anything, there is no ethics either

• No Experience

  • Existence without experience, cannot be experienced even though it may exist. Subjectively then, nothing exists.

• No Non-Best

  • Existence, with experience, however no distinction of value i.e., 'better'. There is no experience that can be better, hence ethics does not exist

    • Example: One experience the same ethical value from any experience e.g., playing soccer or tennis. It wouldn't matter as all experience have the same ethical value

  • Having achieved Ethical Best, ethics stops to be also

• No Efficacy

  • Existence, experience and non-best, however no possibility to influence it. Hence, ethics stops.