MORALITY IS A PRINCIPLE OF NATURE DISCOVERED BY PHILOSOPHY AND EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCES

This work concerns metaethics and its goal is to present a short summary 1. How philosophers attempted to justify our moral behavior by postulating the existence of a „natural moral law”, and 2. how the achievements of modern psychology, ethology, and evolutionary sciences led to the confirmation of its existence and elucidation of its origin.  Author offers a new interpretation of the natural moral law as an unwritten principle which regulates behavior of the entire living world. Our morality, i.e. cooperative behavior in social systems, is a result of biological evolutionary process, and is expressed in the entire living world at the subconscious level in the process of cooperation. When the evolution reached the rational level, it is also expressed in the conscious intellectual constructs.