The realm of the moral can only be appreciated by a "free man". One can only operate in the moral sphere if one is "free".
This mans that each and every man is responsible for his actions but also, to be clear, the idea of any fixed moral tenet is anathema to the individual man.
Once we have fixed tenets, laws, commandments, ethical conscious behavior, etc... we are in the realm of coercion or "unfreedom" .
The "free man" doesn't enter an action with a fixed perspective but acting within the love of the deed performs a moral action which is founded from the higher realm of moral intuition or in other words a "spiritual intuition" .
This is not the "intuition" to which many will say 'I had an intuition" which comes out of a nether realm but an intuition accomplished through thinking and therefore consciously accomplished.
But of course, we are not all free in our actions( the moral activity), so to speak, and live within our nation, race ,gender, clan, family , etc.... even our conscience, and so long as we act, head down without consideration we are not acting within "freedom".
The individual man doesn't have to recreate all moral platforms in originality but he can, through proper conscious consideration, act within the "law of the land" as a "free being", nor does he need act against this "law of the land".
The outer law can only act such that "thou shalt not" reigns and punishment given for a particular act. the "free man' doesn't deny this outer law but in this acts freely for what are these outer laws but the structured pillars of "free men" who have brought to their fellow man the fruits of their labor.
For the philistine who demands that mankind be coerced into an aboriginal tameness, and if he is correct, then why debate the issue and forget about "freedom" altogether and go off and have our cup of coffee, always hiding from the hangman.
The history of morals should be evident to the historian, not as if the particular moral maxims are primary but the evolution of morals is the evolution of the individual man who brings these moral concepts to his fellow man . Man , in his moral tonality, is co creator of the moral , the action of his individuality, that of a "free man".
Oh yes, we are all interlayed with free and unfree type actions as this is the nature of man, a limited being, in progression into the moral realm of the "free".
Last edited by carlo; 08-04-2018 at 03:29 PM.