Logics Origin of Ethics,

Morals, Virtue, and Quality

Most individuals are satisfied to believe that ethics are merely the choices between right and wrong. When an individual questions what might be right or wrong, and compares other individuals' beliefs of right and wrong, it is then found that the previous beliefs were not quite valid. If the question of right and wrong were a simple one, then western philosophy would not have squandered thousands of years debating the topic. Apparently, the method used by western philosophy does not work, and if the method continues to be used, then it is assured that western philosophy will never discover an answer to right and wrong.

All people make their choices upon the belief that the choices are correct for the intended use, and no one can choose a choice that they believe is not the correct choice for them personally. If no one wants to be wrong in their choices - and thus deemed to be of an inferior intellect - then it becomes an intelligent desire to search for an answer to what the correct answer might be.

It is within the reasoning of choosing a choice that it becomes possible to observe by which manner that the person's logic is applied, and upon what foundation of knowledge is used for the logic. The religious man as well as the anti-religious man both apply a similar method of reasoning their beliefs, but at best only one person can be correct in their belief, while the other individual must be incorrect, that is, if right and wrong are truly real things.

As discussed on the firsts page, all things have origins, and the thing that comes into existence early cannot be the creation of a thing that comes into existence later. Gold existed before barter, money, and systems of economics were invented to use gold. Animals existed before zoology was invented to study animals. Ethics and morals existed before religions and philosophies were invented to use and study ethics and morals. No religion or philosophy invented ethics, nor can any religion or philosophy lay claim of being the source or measure of ethics. (See also SesquIQ's Definition of Ethics or the archives' Definition of Ethics.)

It is a well accepted rule of Nature that there must exist a minimum of three components before a new thing can be created. If a principle is valid in one field of study, whether it be physics or common sense, then the principle is valid in all fields, including philosophy and religion. Can you name three of the components that create an ethic? How did ethics come into existence? What is the origin of ethics? By what measure does an ethic exist? Why is an ethic an ethic? What are the components of an ethic? What creates a moral?

Logics Origin of Ethics, Morals, Virtue, and Quality is an entry into the question of ethics from a viewpoint that emphasizes personal participation in one's own behavior and choices, rather than the memorizing of philosophical terms.

"The primary value of Theaetetus is how it provides examples of strings of reasoning that are structured on unknowns. To derive a conclusion of whether a thing is true or false, the expedient method is to prove the thing false, which is easy to do. Once a thing has been proven logically false, then begins the difficult task of understanding why.

An excellent thought to retain while searching for answers is "nothing is self-existent". No object exists separate from all others, all objects are intimately influenced and relative to all other objects, and knowledge itself exists as the essence of several things functioning in harmony." (Logics Origin of Ethics, Morals, Virtue, and Quality)

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Logics Origin of Ethics, Morals, Virtue, and Quality

Larry Neal Gowdy

ISBN-10# 1-933472-03-0

ISBN-13# 978-1-933472-03-4

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Logics Origin of Ethics, Morals, Virtue, and Quality

Contents

Section I The Definitions

Chapter 1: Purpose and Design

Chapter 2: Belief Systems

Chapter 3: Definitions

Chapter 4: Logic

Chapter 5: Intelligence

Chapter 6: Quality

Chapter 7: Linguistics

Chapter 8: Virtue

Section II The Comments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Comments on Religion and Ethics

Chapter 3: Comments on Plato's Meno

Chapter 4: Comments on Plato's Theaetetus

Chapter 5: Miscellaneous Comments