Moral man 2

Alright so quickly recapping the last post, it is plausible that morality is inherent in human nature, however it is more likely that morality, the human conscience which distinguishes between right and wrong, is developed within us by society. Quick note: Socrates and Plato believed that virtue, or good behavior exists with the nature of man. Formally the claim is that no man would do wrong willingly. They also think that if you are forced to do something your are not willingly doing the task and therefore are not accountable for that wrong.
Alright back to the moral law within man. Personally I believe in a composite morality within man. Hopefully that made you go “huh?” Well let me explain. I would think that the human conscience, the human moral law, is a fusion between something within the human nature and something accumulated from the constant nurturing pro livers by society. The bit of our morality that comes from nature is derived from the instinct of self preservation that all animals have. Human being different from animals, having reason within them go beyond that basic instinct, the instinct breeds a fear against harm against oneself and close relations. Generally in human society, harm is seen as wrong. We would do anything to avoid harm to ourselves and we would be considered good if we protected those around us from harm as well. I say generally because there are psychopaths who, philosophers would consider defective humans where the rule would not apply.
If you think about that basic instinct of protection, which comes from human nature, and take a look at the base law of social morality, you should find the connection, it is quite apparent. Now the rest of morality that humans has that has not blatant connection to the nature of protection, those codes come from the nurturing of man by society.
There are those who would disagree with me at the drop of a hat about this view, and I understand why they would.
So moving away from the little psychology bit and back to the philosophy of the matter.
I do believe that there is a true moral law that exists. The absolute moral law, this would also double as the logos of morality, a true definition of morality, for those of you who don’t understand what logos meant. I believe that the composite morality we have comes from that absolute morality, but is defective. When and if anyone reaches and acts with absolute morality that would be when this discussion ends.
You should have noticed that I said the moral law that we have within us is derivative of the absolute moral law. The question I am hoping that makes you ask is how we got the morality we have from the absolute version. I think there are two plausible scenarios to answer this. The short versions are 1) god gave it to us and 2) our souls are remembering in part the absolute morality.
Those two points I will elaborate on in the next post I put up today.
Just a heads up, there will be no Friday post this week since I’m not in the country at on that day