Challenge
Does Objective Morality Exist?...
Friedrich Nietzsche called them humanity’s “herd instinct.” John Stuart Mill stated that they are the proportion to which an action leads to human happiness. Socrates believed that a “moral” individual would not harm an “immoral” individual. Philosophers (and scientists) have long debated the essence of morality, and different cultures have all at various times and even today possess differing ideas of what is morally acceptable. But one question above all else rings clear: do morals actually exist apart from our subjective human world, in the objective realm? To be clear, morals and ethics are something urgently required by society to function properly and to ensure human happiness and trust. For truly, a wold without morals would be a world of chaos and misfortune, presumably. With that established, however, do morals actually exist objectively? If so, who or what sets the rules and what are they? If not, why not? I invite the artists and philosophers of Prose. to take up the challenge, and am eager to read your takes on this. All philosophical and religious views are welcome.
Two Short Poems on Morality
The Art of Moral Law
We are pieces of God.
We make a collage of ourselves.
We worship the unifying.
But we cherish our dissent.
It's our sacred right as gods.
Morality is a dialogue, dialectical.
It’s a fight. And battle is art.
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Like the laws of the universe, morality is entropic.
Oh! But It's a glorious thing to fade and fray, a banner left too long in the sun.
May we exhaust ourselves,
May we refuse to decompose,
May we deny our bodies surrender!
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