Conscienceless Ethics and the Disintegration of Humanity

An Indictment and Integrative Declaration of Soyo’s Existence Ethics

Beyond Change Toward Essence

There is nothing in this world that does not change. Powers shift, institutions are renewed, and cultures flow according to the times. Human relationships are constantly shaken, and even scholarship and philosophy generate new vocabularies in each era. Yet there is one essence that penetrates all these changes. It is the conscience of human existence.

Conscience does not change according to regimes or systems. No matter how much political authority, social institutions, or media structures shift, the inner voice of right and wrong within the human heart never disappears. Soyo's Existence Ethics grounds philosophy in this conscience, uniting existence and ethics.

The Crisis of Ethics Without Conscience

Human morality has always been framed by human hands. Laws and institutions become social regulations, and state ethics are adjusted according to the power structure. People adapt themselves to these codes. The problem, however, is that such codes form an ethic without conscience.

Ethics devoid of conscience become situational morality. Enforced when convenient, ignored when burdensome, and easily rewritten by authority. When humans rely solely on this, they distort themselves to fit systems and regimes. This is the greatest trap philosophy and scholarship have fallen into, and the root of today’s crisis.

Half-Philosophy and the History of Human Disintegration

Philosophy has long pursued the study of humanity. Yet, too often, it has been reduced to dissection and analysis, splitting humanity into language, structures, and functions, until the integrality of conscience and existence was lost.

The result was half-philosophy. By separating existence from ethics, philosophy failed to grasp humanity as a whole and instead fostered a logic of disintegration. The void was filled by power and violence, and history became soaked with blood and tears. Empires of conquest, religious wars, and ideological massacres; all these tragedies were born from philosophy’s abandonment of conscience and its division of existence from ethics.

The Order of the Universe and the Ethics of Human Existence

Human beings are not merely members of society. They are not points drifting in the cosmos but beings who carry the universe within themselves.

The universe itself has order. Stars follow their orbits, seasons cycle, life repeats its beginnings and endings. This order is simply not physical law but divine harmony embedded within creation. Humans cannot escape this order, yet they also embody it.

Thus, to follow conscience is to follow the order of the universe. Human ethics are nothing less than union with this cosmic order. Conscience is not a man-made emotion but the freedom of love granted by God. Humanity cannot be whole apart from this free will.

Philosophy’s Failure and the Integration of Existence Ethics

Human philosophy has neglected conscience. In focusing on analysis and dissection, it severed existence from ethics. The outcome was not salvation but disarray and destruction.

Soyo's Existence Ethics confronts this failure with a declaration:

Ethics is not a system of rules but the conscience living within human existence.

Philosophy is not a tool of dissection but a language of testimony to being.

Humanity bears the universe within, and conscience is the free will granted by God.

Philosophy must reunite existence and ethics to affirm human dignity.

Today’s Chaos and the Silenced Conscience

Even now, disorder pervades societies and homes. Relationships are fractured by distrust, families broken, and communities consumed by competition and decay. At the root always lies an ethic without conscience.

Ethics adjusted to institutions, morality permitted by systems, scholarship enslaved to power; these cannot save humanity. They obscure conscience, blur right and wrong, and hollow out existence.

The Indictment and Hope of Existence Ethics

Yet Soyo’s Existence Ethics does not stop at indictment; it proclaims hope. When human beings once again hear the voice of conscience within, existence and ethics can be reunited. Then philosophy ceases to be a logic of disintegration and becomes a testimony to dignity.

Conscienceless ethics yield the tragedies of civilization. Conscience-bound ethics illuminate humanity’s hope. This is the declaration of Existence Ethics and the reason why philosophy must begin anew.

Soyo (逍遙) – Founder of Soyo's Existence Ethics, Author of The Silence of Existence and The Flame of Truth

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