66 The Belief-systems.

Question प्रश्न 66

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What is the role of :

Ethics, Morality, Culture and Religion in

the progress of the Human Civilization?

Answer  :

Ethics, Morality, Culture and Religion  Could be a very helpful basis for setting up a criteria for deciding the right and wrong done by the individual in relation to the society.

Looks like this is true about a human society only and though mankind is a social animal, animals too need some kind of a society that supports their life and existence.

But it's possible and happens to the humans only that they either by tradition or because of having developed a language to connecting with the others that they build such a certain criteria that helps them understand the rules for coexisting in the society without minimum difficulty and troubles. This also helps them to survive and exist as individual and the society as well. These unwritten and unspoken rules and regulations together make out and could be called the collective norms of their :

Culture, Ethics, Morality and Relegion.

As only for the humans it is possible to have a society based upon and supported by such a facility like elaborately developed a language of their own, they can further communicate well with one-other in their specific society and can impose upon it these above norms as through communication or by force.

So these norms define the criteria upon which the rules and regulations about the collective behavior are imposed / decided.

The Seed, breed, need, creed, and the greed further the way of the individual and also the collective behavior, their mutual interaction, and the struggle between the two.

These factors :

The Seed, breed, need, creed and the greed govern the psyche of everyone in the society, indirectly or directly helping in taking shelter into some belief-systems or faiths, that strictly bind them at the individual and also at the collective level in some Custom, Tradition, and thereby Kay down guideline principles known as :

Ethics, Morality, Culture and Religion.

These all together form and impact upon the individual and the society and as the composite effect their clashes with other individuals and / or societies.

Civilization is one such a concept.

Discriminating between different Civilizations is therefore a misleading idea, because the whole and the entire Human Civilization that  is basically a one whole, undivided mankind, is in this way is broken up in fragments that really never exist.

With the beginning of this idea the clashes amongst the different societies becomes more and more violent only.

Awareness  and Attention, Understanding of this Reality is the only essential and the urgent way and the need at all times.

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