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our universal morality doesnt take its source from our instincts . .it is our mind which led us to develop these ethics to be a part of the society in which we have to live together because we are social beings.
I respectfully disagree. I believe that our minds have led us to override the proper morality (based on our instincts) with that based on the false ideals of reason and logic. We lived together long before we built these constructs. We just did so in much smaller groups than today's social constructs. Generally no more than clan sized. It is my belief that we were never really designed to exist on a whole lot more than that level.
you may know eastern philosophies differ from abrahamic ones in forming an idealized human. your views on this issue seem to be a mixture of both of them.
I am well aware that there are significant differences between Eastern and Western philosophies. I don't believe that either are fully correct, and thusly you are right in seeing my views as a mixture of the two.