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Now we come to the eighth level, which
is the final level, yet, paradoxically the infinite level of
ethical behavior. It, we might call the human ethic. What is the
ultimate? It consists of those everlasting qualities of all other
ethics through which man has evolved, and these will be
subordinated within the over-all value for self. At the level of
the human ethic, man will believe it is proper to trust the
inherent goodness in all men. This faith in the species, mankind,
will be a derivative of the sacrificial ethic. Valuing autonomy
and freedom of action will be found as the lasting sign of the
Machiavellian ethic. From the third evolutionary stage, the
conformistic ethic will come the belief that one should be one
with all mankind. Man will value other men, all other men because
he belongs to them, and they to him. He will believe it is right
for all men to have a strong sense of personal worth, and he will
value all behavior that demonstrates that this sense of personal
worth exists. This, you see, is the contribution of the
role-playing ethic to man’s ultimate development. Out of the
fifth level, the cognitive ethic, man will come to value
knowledge, all knowledge, no matter how foreign to his previous
beliefs the knowledge may be. The sixth ethic, the ethic of
compassion will contribute valuing all things human as a
revelation of the power of the person to cope with life. He will
value empathy and sympathy, fear and anger, loving and hating,
comprehension and understanding.
He will value compassion. From the seventh level will come valuing of the cosmos as a whole and all things animate and inanimate. Above all, man will value the conservation of life and of things contributing to life. He will value his own life, only as means to the end that life shall be everlasting. Not his life, but the life that comes after him. And, man will value those things that genuinely assure that all men yet to come shall have their chance to self-actualize, their change to be human. When, at the moment of death, man can honestly say: If I had life to live over again, I wouldn’t – for I have lived. Then man will be living by the human ethic. |
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