To get away from the descriptive topic a little, we are going to analyze the origin of these concepts and the role they play in the future of Humanity.
Everyone will agree that both are necessary qualities, but not everyone considers the fact that they are not absolute conceptions, but rather derived from certain social contexts and managed to produce a mass effect.
Morality is forged in the customs of people or, in truth, in the attributes socially imposed by those who have power over political and religious matters.
For example, “Christian morality” is full of elements that almost no one analyzes due to the biblical mandate. It is a sacred book and therefore indisputable.
The Christian idea of sin comes from biblical paragraphs where it is mentioned as חֵטְא which means “missing the goal”, since the question is: how can missing the goal lead you to eternal hell?
This leads us to consider that many of the things we consider moral or virtuous may, in reality, be misrepresentations.
Is courage a virtue? Is it even when the brave warrior kills people? How many of those considered heroes are not, in reality, criminals?
Julius Caesar was considered a great man. In his campaign against Gaul, he murdered two and a half million people, most of them children, the elderly and women… is that courage? or genocide?
He could make an infinite list of behaviors considered moral and virtuous that are actually atavisms based on aberrations.
But let’s save time.
There is an idea that I like from the philosopher Lao-Tzu and it is that of “natural virtue or Te. According to this Chinese philosopher, real virtue is based on the four natural virtues, which are:
REVERENCE FOR EVERY FORM OF LIFE
NATURAL SINCERITY
MEEKNESS
HELPING ATTITUDE
If we analyze it, we will realize how little we cultivate these virtues, to the point that we believe that some of them are weaknesses and on the other hand, that it would be good for this society to cultivate them, to develop a truly positive culture, of goodness and truthfulness.
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