Source: yutok, Post Courier, Friday October 7, 2011
THERE’S a Chinese proverb; “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people”
The moral regulation of behaviour has been necessary to the group’s well-being. Although morals were formalised and made into arbitrary standards of conduct, they developed, sometimes irrationally, after religious taboos were violated; out-of-chance behaviour that became habit and then custom; or from laws imposed by chiefs to prevent disharmony in their tribes. Even the great ancient Egyptian and Sumerian civilisations developed no systematised ethics; maxims set down by secular leaders, such as Ptahhotep, mingled with a strict religion that affected the behaviour of every Egyptian. In ancient China, the maxims of Confucius were accepted as moral code. The philosophical position summarised as follows; virtue is knowledge; people will be virtuous if they know what virtue is; and vice, or evil, is the result of ignorance. Thus, education as to what constitutes virtue can make people moral. And not the least, believing that the intellectual nature is superior to the sensual nature and that the best life is one devoted to mental discipline founded with rules emphasising simplicity in speech, dress, and food.
The principles that govern human life must be fundamental on every point to fulfill life’s purpose. And what principles do you apply to fulfill the purpose of your life in existence for the common good of all? GOD Bless PNG.
Ovia Morea - Goroka
The moral regulation of behaviour has been necessary to the group’s well-being. Although morals were formalised and made into arbitrary standards of conduct, they developed, sometimes irrationally, after religious taboos were violated; out-of-chance behaviour that became habit and then custom; or from laws imposed by chiefs to prevent disharmony in their tribes. Even the great ancient Egyptian and Sumerian civilisations developed no systematised ethics; maxims set down by secular leaders, such as Ptahhotep, mingled with a strict religion that affected the behaviour of every Egyptian. In ancient China, the maxims of Confucius were accepted as moral code. The philosophical position summarised as follows; virtue is knowledge; people will be virtuous if they know what virtue is; and vice, or evil, is the result of ignorance. Thus, education as to what constitutes virtue can make people moral. And not the least, believing that the intellectual nature is superior to the sensual nature and that the best life is one devoted to mental discipline founded with rules emphasising simplicity in speech, dress, and food.
The principles that govern human life must be fundamental on every point to fulfill life’s purpose. And what principles do you apply to fulfill the purpose of your life in existence for the common good of all? GOD Bless PNG.
Ovia Morea - Goroka
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