Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
MORALITY AND GEOMETRY
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morality
Is "morality" merely a freestanding "belief" in the innate rightness or wrongness of a given thing? Or is morality, itself, defined by and subject to even higher, more rigorous laws, that are susceptible of proof, demonstration, illustration, which lay at the base of all mankind and all "civilization," dating back tens of thousands of years? Given this latter question, one need not ask whether morality and religion are one and the same. They are clearly not. Religion evolved from the same source as morality and other disciplines, like mathematics, astronomy, art, music, agriculture, navigation. Yet, being divorced from its source, religion lost its reference point and became that which was right in each man's eyesight or belief.
I would postulate that the base of morality is rooted in and deduced from ancient geometry, from whence it derives its universal, predictable impulses. Geometry is susceptible of proof, demonstration, illustration, and is embodied in the ancient megaliths and numbering systems, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture, navigation, art, construction, music, human laws, etc.