Another assumption is that just as the seed must have certain living circumstances to fully flower so to is man’s ethical behavior determined to a considerable extent by the life circumstances in which the human develops.

Finally, I have assumed that there is something of an ethical nature inherent in man, which is triggered into operation as one or another ethical system in one or another form, by certain life circumstances. These assumptions led to the following hypotheses about ethical behavior.

1. That the ethical system of a man or a group of men, living in certain definable life circumstances is a function of the dynamic systems operant in that man or that group of men.
    
2. That the system of ethical behavior by which a man or a group of men lives changes in an orderly determined manner consonant with changes in dynamics triggered by changes in life circumstances.
    
3. That there emerges an ethical thema of what is right and wrong in behavior appropriate to each level of dynamic system.
    
4. That within each thema certain specific values of right and wrong will be expressed, with one man or one group of men emphasizing one or some of the values within a thema while another man or group of men may accentuate some other value within the thema.
    
5. That there is a natural driveness in man to proceed from a lower to a higher level dynamic system and thus a concomitant natural driveness to move from a lower, more humanly restricting, conception of right and wrong to a higher, more humanly freeing conception of right and wrong.
    
6. That as man moves from a lower to a higher level of ethical behavior, some values by which man judges right and wrong are discarded as no longer appropriate to his changed status in life. Also, as a part of this point, that some of the values of previous ethical systems are retained intact, that some values are modified and that some new, not previously existing conceptions of right and wrong emerge at each subsequent dynamic system emerges.
    
7. That the ethical systems by which men live may progress, fixate at an over or underdeveloped condition, or may, if dynamic conditions are proper, regress.
    
8. That lower level dynamic systems produce a more rigid ethical system and thereby make it impossible for those living by lower level ethics to comprehend the meaning of living by the principles of ethical systems higher in the hierarchy.
    
9. That the normal picture of ethical development is to proceed from a narrow restricting thema of right and wrong related to a narrow dynamic system to a broader conception of right and wrong which emerges concomitantly with an enlarged dynamic system.
    
10. That the particular character of the general level of cognitive awareness within a dynamic system (diminished or accepted awareness of a particular percept) may be such as to produce an ethical monstrum in defectu or an ethical monstrum in excessu. That is, if man’s living circumstances are of a certain character, and his cognitive awareness at a particular dynamic level, distorted so as to under or over accentuate some aspect of that awareness, then the appropriate ethical system may fail to develop adequately or the ethical system may become a monstrous over development of the thema and of some values which concomitantly vary with that particular psychological dynamic system.