7. Meta-ethics

The theory of Taiji Evolutionism believes that there are three fundamental value standards: individualism, humanism and evolutionism.

7.1 Individualism

Many ancient and modern thinkers of China and abroad have discussed the private interest, but the depth of the discussion is very different. The depth of understanding of self-interest can be divided into eight levels.

(1) Admit that everyone has private interests. Don't just see the goodwill, a lot of goodwill is hypocrisy.

(2) To see that self-interest comes from the nature of animals.

(3) See the contradiction between profit and justice.

(4) Seeing the Restraint is needed when contradiction between interests and justice. Zhu Xi said," We must obey the law of God, and destroy human desire." Most religions are based on the principle of restraining one's desires. Most of the ancient ethics stayed at this level.

(5) The recognition of private interest as justice. Epicurus said, "Happiness is the highest good we are born with."

(6) To see the unity of interest and justice. Adam Smith said that the market system ensures that the businessman increase the social benefit while he maximizes his own interests, which is better than that when businessman take the initiative to do.

(7) Recognize the importance of private interests to social development. Since the Renaissance, humanism and liberalism have always advocated the liberation of human nature, Freud discussed the influence of sexual desire on society, Marx believed that the economic base determines the superstructure, and the economic base is the activity to satisfy people's selfish desires.

(8) Scientific meta-ethics. It is to take individualism, humanism and evolutionism as the ultimate standard of value, fully understand the unity of opposites of the three, and take meta-ethics as the basis of epistemology and ontology.

7.2 Humanism

Humanism is people-oriented, not animal-oriented. People and animals are not equal. It's one person, one vote. You can't say one chicken, one vote, one duck, one vote.. Man can kill pigs, pigs can't kill people. But every person is equal, and it is unjust to harm the interests of other people.