Voluntary Social Cooperation Is Part Of Natural Law.

Civilization advances best when knowledge flows optimally. Of course there is never perfect knowledge nor is there uniformity of understanding of the knowledge, both because of human differences but also because other factors, since humans are not omnipresent or omniscient. That said, when the flow of knowledge is optimal the development of individuals and of society has great potential to be tremendously transforming. I can suggest at this point that it is virtually impossible for us to envision the possibilities. We have a difficult enough time to even envision the beauty of an unhampered market economy.

But when individuals and societies (and therefore civilization) can freely enjoy the bounty of the optimal flow of knowledge the ethics advances too. This combination of higher and higher powers of the investigation of truth combined with ethical maturation will be a great leap forward in the process of discovering laws. I am sure more natural laws will be discovered and these will be understood more intricately but the enigma that is pretty much understood only at an infantile level now - the human spirit, that is, the associated laws of human action and human reality - will be discovered.

These are the laws that will be discovered and voluntarily inculcated by all. Since these laws will be of a universal nature and fully attuned to the spiritual reality of humans, the voluntary social cooperation - to degrees that we cannot yet envision - will be understood as part of natural law.

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Of Course Ethics And Economics Are Inseparable!

Look at any society and you will see certain characteristics and there will be certain patterns of life. For the lack of a better term we can call these characteristics and these patterns the culture of that society.

One characteristic that has economic implications is time preference. There are many different reasons that contribute to the time preference tendencies in a society, for example, war and inflation tend to increase the time preferences.

The time preference is a significant determinant of the amount of savings and the amount of savings represents potential loanable funds. At this point in the sequence a monumental segue occurs. The most limiting factor in the economy is capital and this is what the loanable funds convert into and then the transformation throughout the economy is activated.

In other words, the most limiting factor in the economy and that which activates the power of transformation is connected and linked to the cultural time preferences.

No one ever did nor will they ever claim that ethics is not a part of a culture. And now it is clear and evident that attempts to separate ethics and economics are unrealistic. Hence, science that separates ethics and economics is unrealistic. The proof can be seen all around us as the bad fruits of living in the Dark Ages of economics.

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Ethics, Rationality, And Subjectivity In An Imperfect World.

There is no pretend world where ethics and rationality and subjectivity can be surgerically separated and treated as separate phenomena and from which can then be gleaned something 'scientific.' These are interwoven and cannot be empiricized; but that does not mean that they cannot be studied scientifically or that science cannot advance. The first step is to adopt the scientific methodology that is capable of exploring these without any fictitious assumptions. The methodology of subjectivism allows the realism to remain in tact and uses logic to unravel mysteries.

Ethics is never perfect but it is relative and so it can be good or bad. There is a dynamic interaction of ethics with that of the imperfect world and both affect each other. The ideal environment for the dynamic processes to work together is when information flows in an optimal fashion which can only be achieved in an unhampered market economy.

And so ethics changes over time based on what is happening in the real world. The human minds in the world are focused on perceiving what is going on and figuring out how to respond. This is the rational mind at work.

In an inseparable manner the ethics of each individual is part of the filtering process that is going on during the perception and during the decision-making and this is specific to each individual. This subjectivity plays a role in the rational decisions made, with the outcome being reflected as a whole and becoming manifest as the imperfect world.

In an unhampered market economy social cooperation moves everything towards a higher degree of ethics because rationality is given greater clarity and because subjectivity is at a relatively mature level resulting from the last advancement of ethics. Sure the world is imperfect but each period is an improvement on the last because of the operation of the rational minds and the maturing subjectivity resulting from an advancing ethics.

Of course this is contingent on the flow of information which is optimized in an unhampered market economy. This is the process that necessarily occurs, according to the divine economy theory, if all ego-driven intervention is stopped.

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