ONE CANNOT BE MORAL... Jersey Flight

For an ethical man or woman philosophy is a means to an end, for a vain dabbler, philosophy is a kind of conceptual game... and for the lowest among us, it is a tool for tyranny (it is how some exact their revenge).

"Mr. Flight I do say, your response raises more questions than it does answers. What exactly is the "end" for which philosophy is the means?"

Man's contingency is social, the "end" adheres to that which is most necessary. Any dumb ape can feed himself at the expense of others, but it takes an altogether larger philosophy to sustain a society. Primitive men have not evolved beyond the impulse of violence (this equally includes their philosophy). One who thinks only of himself as the sole problem needing a solution, is ignorant to the fact of his social contingency. The social mind is of an altogether higher order than the primitive mind. For the primitive mind can only think of resolution in terms of violence (even its use of cooperation is violent). Such a mind manifests frustration and inability toward the power of abstraction (it cannot liberate itself from nature). Impulse is usually the opposite of intelligence, and when elevated to the status of social theory, is bound to produce tyranny, which stands as the negation of society. The value of cooperation, as a tool for liberation, has no place in the primitive mind [here cooperation is herded to serve the individual]. One cannot be moral without a social end!

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