Ethics & Entities: The Foundation of Ethics for the Conduct of Entities

Jackson Capper | 6 July 2019

Entities can be optimised according to the governing quality of their entity scope and can better promote their ultimate prevalence, if not perpetuity. All sub-entities that exists within the entity should be optimised for the prevalence of the super-entity. It may seem that the welfare of a sub-entity should at times, take precedence. This cannot be the case. Whatever significant virtues a sub-entity might bring about, such conditions are necessary for the sub-entity to have produced them. A perpetuation of the conditions that enabled the sub-entity are therefore preferable, since the virtues can be sustainably reproduced.

The Intended Ends & The Intended Means

First we must consider what we should optimise towards. In Ethics we determined that the only standard by which we could determine good behaviour is whatever intent gave rise to our ability to decide. We should not act according to the assumption that the intention was for us to subvert our natural reflective capacity, because there an infinite ways to act in such a way. There is only one natural-reflective way.

We understand that there varies across individuals a natural will with variation from the bulk of the populace, however these are exceptions. There is obviously an intended order for mankind as a whole. We also understand that there exists a result of an intention that surpasses immediate action. That is, the results of a sequence of actions. There is a greater good, for all actions are the greater good of infinitely divisible actions, down to each muscle activation. The question is how just a goal should be achieved. That is, what are the smaller actions mankind must take in order to achieve this goal.

Given our fallen nature and tendencies towards primitive animalistic behaviours, we must work in tandem with them into order to supplant them. That is, we cannot displace sex, family, food, and all orders of cravings in one swoop. To enforce such a thing would result in absolute anarchy as the populace seeks to regain its pleasures. It needs to be done over many years, perhaps centuries, but most likely millennia. This is ultimately achieved through the development of the sciences, and engineering. We can therefore determine that we should act so as to conquer our natural environment and have dominion over it. To surpass all our physical dependencies.

On some reflection, it may seem that such a goal is in fact undesirable. That we would prefer to frolic in pastoral settings, green grass, and humble living for eternity. However, this is an attachment to beauty which must also be surpassed. To strive for beauty is to strive for pleasure, in which case we should avert our goals towards narcotics development. Such a goal is incompatible with the clear intent of our design as pleasure seeking… [to do].

Not only is the end goal intended, the means must also be intended given that the means the path to achieving such goals is laid before us. We have been given the path of both human rationale, and human instinct. The horizontal ethic can be resolved to the intended means, and the vertical ethic can be resolved to the intended ends. It is immoral for us to seek an ends which is at odds with the intended ends, that is, the vertical ethic. So is it immoral for us to achieve the goal by means which is at odds with the intended means, that is, the horizontal ethic. The horizontal ethic includes that mankind is not a single entity, but an infinitely divisible group of entities, at some perimeters aligning into cohesive organisms but existing on a spectrum through all scopes.

The fulfilment of a vertical ethic is the sequence of events required. It consists of an infinitely divisible sequence of every action, from the contemplation, the decision, and the actuation of muscles. Larger sequences of actions can then be grouped into cohesive super-actions. So is for the fulfilment of the horizontal ethic, which requires that individuals have varying qualities, personalities, genetics, and locations, of which are also infinitely divisible. It is not role of an action to fulfil every goal, nor is it the role of every individual to fulfil every purpose. We can reasonably suppose that there is an intended means for each individual, and subsequent entity.

This provides a reasonable foundation on which we can decide on how to reflectively conduct ourselves, and our communities.