Ethics Setting Up a Morality Code

Setting Up a Morality System

Morality is a code of ethics that guides human’s choices and actions, and those actions and choices are what determine the purpose and the course of their life. The first question that must be answered, as a precondition of any attempts to define, to judge or to accept any specific system of morality is, Why do humans need a code of values? Or do humans need a moral code at all, and why?

In order for a moral system to be tenable and viable, it ought to have the following: 1. rationally based and not devoid of emotion. 2. Logically consistent

3. Universal applications to all humanity. 4. Taught and promulgated and 5. The ability to resolve human conflicts between one another ( Thiroux J., Krausemann K. Ethics Theory and Practice. pg. 140 2012 Pearson).

I believe that human’s only moral commandment should be: Thou shall think. Unfortunately a moral commandment is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

The morality of reason is simple, existence exist, and in a single choice, to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, humans must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of their lives: Reason, Purpose, and Self-Esteem. Reason is human’s only tool of knowledge (Rand, Ayn. The Voice of Reason pg. 128. 1982 Penguin). Purpose is their choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve, and self-Esteem as human’s inviolate certainty that their minds are competent to think and their person is worthy of happiness, which means, worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of human’s virtues and all their virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness and pride.

The above contains all five attributes. It is rationally based and not devoid of emotion. It is logically consistent and it is...