ABSTRACT

The morality consists in saying and doing what an internally acknowledged and externally professed standard of good and evil prescribes. The saint assumes the human condition, and regards morality as its natural corrective; the sage turns increasingly inward, and achieves through a kind of psychic athleticism and training the reduction of bodily needs and manifestations to a minimum. Thus ethological morality shapes individuals who in turn condition a new, universal morality, far removed from good and evil, and favoring a programmed, conflictless society. The traditional concepts assume society to be an organic entity: as a part of the cosmos; the mystical body of Christ of which all believers are intercommunicating members; the racial and national communities; those with a common tradition or objective; and so on. Modern Utopian speculation has found many channels and terminologies with which to penetrate political thought; it offers an "ideal society" and when it is rejected, it offers the "stabilization" of the existing nonideal society.