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16:7.1 [[Intelligence]] alone cannot explain the [[moral]] [[nature]]. [[Morality]], [[virtue]], is indigenous to [[human]] [[personality]]. Moral [[intuition]], the [[realization]] of [[duty]], is a component of human [[mind]] endowment and is [[associated]] with the other inalienables of human [[nature]]: [[scientific]] curiosity and [[spiritual]] [[insight]]. Man's mentality far [[transcends]] that of his [[animal]] cousins, but it is his moral and religious natures that especially distinguish him from the animal world.
16:7.2 The selective [[response]] of an animal is [[limited]] to the [[Mechanical|motor]] level of [[behavior]]. The supposed [[insight]] of the higher animals is on a motor level and usually appears only after the [[experience]] of motor trial and error. Man is able to [[exercise]] [[scientific]], [[moral]], and [[spiritual]] [[insight]] [[A Priori|prior]] to all [[exploration]] or [[experimentation]].
16:7.3 Only a [[personality]] can know what it is doing before it does it; only personalities possess [[insight]] in advance of [[experience]]. A personality can look before it leaps and can therefore learn from looking as well as from leaping. A nonpersonal [[animal]] ordinarily learns only by leaping.
16:7.4 As a result of experience an animal becomes able to [[examine]] the different ways of [[attaining]] a goal and to select an approach based on accumulated [[experience]]. But a [[personality]] can also examine the goal itself and pass [[judgment]] on its [[worth]]-whileness, its [[value]]. [[Intelligence]] alone can [[discriminate]] as to the best means of attaining indiscriminate ends, but a [[moral]] [[being]] possesses an [[insight]] which enables him to discriminate between ends as well as between means. And a moral being in choosing [[virtue]] is nonetheless [[intelligent]]. He knows what he is doing, why he is doing it, where he is going, and how he will get there.
16:7.5 When man fails to discriminate the ends of his mortal striving, he finds himself [[function]]ing on the animal level of [[existence]]. He has failed to avail himself of the superior advantages of that [[material]] acumen, [[moral]] discrimination, and [[spiritual]] [[insight]] which are an integral part of his [[cosmic]]-[[mind]] endowment as a [[personal]] [[being]].
16:7.6 [[Virtue]] is [[righteousness]]—[[conformity]] with the [[cosmos]]. To name virtues is not to define them, but to live them is to know them. Virtue is not mere [[knowledge]] nor yet [[wisdom]] but rather the [[reality]] of [[progressive]] [[experience]] in the [[attainment]] of ascending levels of cosmic achievement. In the day-by-day life of mortal man, virtue is [[realized]] by the consistent [[choosing]] of [[good]] rather than [[evil]], and such choosing ability is [[evidence]] of the possession of a [[moral]] [[nature]].
16:7.7 Man's [[choosing]] between [[good]] and [[evil]] is [[influenced]], not only by the keenness of his [[moral]] [[nature]], but also by such influences as ignorance, immaturity, and delusion. A sense of [[proportion]] is also concerned in the [[exercise]] of [[virtue]] because evil may be perpetrated when the lesser is chosen in the place of the greater as a result of [[distortion]] or [[deception]]. The [[art]] of [[relative]] estimation or comparative [[measurement]] enters into the [[practice]] of the [[virtue]]s of the [[moral]] realm.
16:7.8 Man's [[moral]] nature would be impotent without the [[art]] of [[measurement]] [http://books.google.com/books?id=QDjto8j0PE4C&dq=crosby,+measure&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=l0iVS9eiGcuztgfO5OTUCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false], the discrimination embodied in his ability to scrutinize [[meanings]]. Likewise would moral [[choosing]] be futile without that cosmic [[insight]] which yields the [[consciousness]] of [[spiritual]] [[values]]. From the standpoint of [[intelligence]], man ascends to the level of a moral being because he is endowed with [[personality]].
16:7.9 [[Morality]] can never be advanced by [[law]] or by [[force]]. It is a [[personal]] and [[freewill]] matter and must be disseminated by the contagion of the contact of morally fragrant persons with those who are less morally [[responsive]], but who are also in some measure desirous of [[doing the Father's will]].
16:7.10 [[Moral]] [[acts]] are those [[human]] [[performances]] which are characterized by the highest [[intelligence]], directed by selective discrimination in the choice of superior ends as well as in the selection of moral means to attain these ends. Such conduct is virtuous. Supreme [[virtue]], then, is wholeheartedly to choose to[[ do the will of the Father in heaven]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16 Go to Paper 16]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 16 - The Seven Master Spirits]]
16:7.1 [[Intelligence]] alone cannot explain the [[moral]] [[nature]]. [[Morality]], [[virtue]], is indigenous to [[human]] [[personality]]. Moral [[intuition]], the [[realization]] of [[duty]], is a component of human [[mind]] endowment and is [[associated]] with the other inalienables of human [[nature]]: [[scientific]] curiosity and [[spiritual]] [[insight]]. Man's mentality far [[transcends]] that of his [[animal]] cousins, but it is his moral and religious natures that especially distinguish him from the animal world.
16:7.2 The selective [[response]] of an animal is [[limited]] to the [[Mechanical|motor]] level of [[behavior]]. The supposed [[insight]] of the higher animals is on a motor level and usually appears only after the [[experience]] of motor trial and error. Man is able to [[exercise]] [[scientific]], [[moral]], and [[spiritual]] [[insight]] [[A Priori|prior]] to all [[exploration]] or [[experimentation]].
16:7.3 Only a [[personality]] can know what it is doing before it does it; only personalities possess [[insight]] in advance of [[experience]]. A personality can look before it leaps and can therefore learn from looking as well as from leaping. A nonpersonal [[animal]] ordinarily learns only by leaping.
16:7.4 As a result of experience an animal becomes able to [[examine]] the different ways of [[attaining]] a goal and to select an approach based on accumulated [[experience]]. But a [[personality]] can also examine the goal itself and pass [[judgment]] on its [[worth]]-whileness, its [[value]]. [[Intelligence]] alone can [[discriminate]] as to the best means of attaining indiscriminate ends, but a [[moral]] [[being]] possesses an [[insight]] which enables him to discriminate between ends as well as between means. And a moral being in choosing [[virtue]] is nonetheless [[intelligent]]. He knows what he is doing, why he is doing it, where he is going, and how he will get there.
16:7.5 When man fails to discriminate the ends of his mortal striving, he finds himself [[function]]ing on the animal level of [[existence]]. He has failed to avail himself of the superior advantages of that [[material]] acumen, [[moral]] discrimination, and [[spiritual]] [[insight]] which are an integral part of his [[cosmic]]-[[mind]] endowment as a [[personal]] [[being]].
16:7.6 [[Virtue]] is [[righteousness]]—[[conformity]] with the [[cosmos]]. To name virtues is not to define them, but to live them is to know them. Virtue is not mere [[knowledge]] nor yet [[wisdom]] but rather the [[reality]] of [[progressive]] [[experience]] in the [[attainment]] of ascending levels of cosmic achievement. In the day-by-day life of mortal man, virtue is [[realized]] by the consistent [[choosing]] of [[good]] rather than [[evil]], and such choosing ability is [[evidence]] of the possession of a [[moral]] [[nature]].
16:7.7 Man's [[choosing]] between [[good]] and [[evil]] is [[influenced]], not only by the keenness of his [[moral]] [[nature]], but also by such influences as ignorance, immaturity, and delusion. A sense of [[proportion]] is also concerned in the [[exercise]] of [[virtue]] because evil may be perpetrated when the lesser is chosen in the place of the greater as a result of [[distortion]] or [[deception]]. The [[art]] of [[relative]] estimation or comparative [[measurement]] enters into the [[practice]] of the [[virtue]]s of the [[moral]] realm.
16:7.8 Man's [[moral]] nature would be impotent without the [[art]] of [[measurement]] [http://books.google.com/books?id=QDjto8j0PE4C&dq=crosby,+measure&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=l0iVS9eiGcuztgfO5OTUCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false], the discrimination embodied in his ability to scrutinize [[meanings]]. Likewise would moral [[choosing]] be futile without that cosmic [[insight]] which yields the [[consciousness]] of [[spiritual]] [[values]]. From the standpoint of [[intelligence]], man ascends to the level of a moral being because he is endowed with [[personality]].
16:7.9 [[Morality]] can never be advanced by [[law]] or by [[force]]. It is a [[personal]] and [[freewill]] matter and must be disseminated by the contagion of the contact of morally fragrant persons with those who are less morally [[responsive]], but who are also in some measure desirous of [[doing the Father's will]].
16:7.10 [[Moral]] [[acts]] are those [[human]] [[performances]] which are characterized by the highest [[intelligence]], directed by selective discrimination in the choice of superior ends as well as in the selection of moral means to attain these ends. Such conduct is virtuous. Supreme [[virtue]], then, is wholeheartedly to choose to[[ do the will of the Father in heaven]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_16 Go to Paper 16]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 16 - The Seven Master Spirits]]
