Brief Notes on the Theme of the Ethical Life

Our ethical life should be based on self-fulfilment through universality rather than a sense of duty to anti-human identity groups or individualisms.

Self-fulfilment can be a passion in itself, so why not a society-forming (and maintaining) passion.

Once self-fulfilment has been anchored in the universal object that is humanity, it absorbs duty. The collision between passion and duty thereby disappears in the passionate self-fulfilment obtained through universality.

Good resides in what is known – which tells us that both discovery and preservation are positive concepts.

Because of this, heroic conflict arises: 1) between that which strives to know and that which tries to impede discoveries; or 2) between that which wants to keep and maintain our knowledge of things and that which tries to erase collective memories.

Heroic conflict also arises between the creative and the forces stifling creativity. Creativity is a way of uncovering the knowledge of all possibilities and art and technology are ways of putting such knowledge into effect or giving the formless form.

Through art, consciousness sets up and establishes something from out of itself and can transform a particular moment or thing into an essential reality.

The idea of self-fulfilment in the universal assumes the ethical right of the dual form – i.e., the binary form of the individual and the universal (Humanity) … take da Vinci’s Vitruvian man as a symbol of this.