moral consciousness

is negatively considered, such that it delivers us from the unquenchable thirst that is individuated human life, along with the incessant oscillation between pain and boredom.

Negatively considered, moral consciousness delivers us from the unquenchable thirst that is individuated human life, along with the incessant oscillation between pain and boredom.

is positively considered, such that it generates a measure of wisdom, as one's outlook becomes akin to a universal novel that contains the templates for all of the human stories which have been repeating themselves generation after generation.

Positively considered, moral consciousness generates a measure of wisdom, as one's outlook becomes akin to a universal novel that contains the templates for all of the human stories which have been repeating themselves generation after generation stories comic and tragic, pathetic and triumphant, and trivial and monumental. One becomes like the steadfast tree, whose generations of leaves fall away with each passing season, as does generation after generation of people (Homer, Iliad, Book VI).

In this respect, moral consciousness becomes the 'quieter' of the will, despite its first-person recognition of human torment. Works of art that portray this kind of sublime consciousness would include the Laocoön (c. 25 B.C.E.) and Hieronymous Bosch's painting, Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1515).

moral consciousness, n.Definitions

moral consciousness