Morality Absolute

By Abhijit Naskar

"If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as this - a moral being is a good being - a religious being - a conscientious being - a wise being."

Abhijit Naskar is the name of an idea that has swept the world off its feet with the realization of one humanity. The humanizing ideas of this twenty-first century thinker have been at the fore-front of global harmony and peace. In this book, Naskar takes us on a joy-ride of realization of our inner morality. He quite boldly trumps all intellectual assumptions of morality, and proclaims it to be realized, worked on and acted on, by nobody else but ourselves. Here he tears apart all claims of exclusive possessions of morality by the scientific, philosophical and religious communities, and places it where it is born in the first place - the human mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Neuro Cookies
• Release date: Nov 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386067634

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MORALITY ABSOLUTE

Abhijit Naskar is the twenty-first century mind of science, whose glorious philosophical touch has enabled modern Neuroscience to effectively engage in the human society towards diminishing the ever-growing conflicts among religions. As an untiring advocate of global harmony and peace, he became a beloved best-selling author all over the world with his very first book The Art of Neuroscience in Everything. With various of his pioneering ventures into the Neuropsychology of religious sentiments, he has hugely contributed to humanity’s attempt of eradicating religious differences, for which he is popularly hailed as a humanitarian who incessantly works towards taking the human civilization in the path of sweet general harmony.

ABHIJIT

NASKAR

MORALITY ABSOLUTE

Morality Absolute

Copyright © 2017 Abhijit Naskar

This is a work of non-fiction

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

An Amazon Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 2017

Printed in United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1979988773

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Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

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The Education Decree

Principia Humanitas

The Krishna Cancer

Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens

We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

The Film Testament

Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

I Am The Thread: My Mission

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Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

To Humanity

CONTENTS

Chapter 1  What’s Right, What’s Wrong

Chapter 2  When Cognition and Behavior are in sync

Chapter 3  What is Morality all about

Chapter 4  How to create a moral and peaceful world

Chapter 5  Can Science teach Morality

Chapter 6  Morality is to Scriptures, what Innovation is to Comic-Books

Chapter 7  Morality is Humanity

Bibliography

CHAPTER 1––––––––What’s Right,

What’s Wrong

What's right and what 's wrong, that's the question that every single living human on earth ponders upon every once in a while, if not frequently. Volumes of literature have been published on this matter, yet it appears to be a never-resolving puzzle among the kind of creatures known as Homo sapiens - a puzzle for which every single individual on earth believes to have a solution. Yet, when the impulses of instincts shove them at the very edge of their conscience, those self-glorified solutions and preconceived notions of the puzzle of a basic moral sense begin to dwindle in thin air of insecurity and confusion. Out of this magnificent yet heart-wrenching existential event, rises either a truly civilized being with absolute control over the primitive parts of the self, or an ugly ghost from our distant wild past.

Standing true to one's moral values is easier when the mind is absorbed in chemical happiness, but the trouble occurs, when that happiness becomes a matter of the future attained only through almost superhuman persistence, patience and self-restraint. In such situations, the true mettle of a human being reveals itself - and the truth rises through the actions taken by the individual. And depending on the temporal nature of the reward anticipated via those actions, one can truly determine the moral pedestal that one truly lives on.

Happy moments almost always induce morally superior behavior in an individual, but that's not the true moral realm that one lives in. The true morality of an individual self manifests during the moments of extreme hardship and agony. These are the moments that determine the true solution to the puzzle of morality of human existence. Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human species. Every other kind of moral behavior would simply be an evolutionary response of the brain's empathy system acting as a mechanism for survival of not necessarily the individual, but a group of individuals.

And that's how various ideologies often induce morally superior behavior among individuals within the groups relevant to those ideologies, such as nationalism, communism, feminism, religious fundamentalism, scientism and many more. Happiness induced morality is not true morality, for it is very likely to be nullified by the morally inferior behavior the individual expresses when he or she is in pain.

Now, here one thing I must clarify. It is that in terms of momentary practical application, there is really not much difference between happiness