Life has existed in the universe for more than 3.8 billion years.
We are part of this life.

A universe without life is a universe without meaning.
Life creates meaning.
Only life understands what meaning is.

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We are the most powerful animal in the animal kingdom, the most powerful creature in our world of life.
We’re the most able to control, manage and change our world.
We carry on our shoulders the responsibility and the weight of this power.

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There is no purpose to human action if life ceases.
There is no morality, no duty, no ethics without life.
Therefore the source of morality, duty, ethics can only be life.

Intelligent Ethics sees our first duty as the commitment to life itself.

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On the basis of this commitment and this duty Intelligent Ethics derives four simple moral aims:
The nurturing of human lives
The nurturing of humanity
The nurturing of all life
The sharing of life with the solar system and the stars.

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These aims spring from the very essence of what we are.

We are life.
We embody life.
We represent life.
We have the power of life and death over life itself.

It is in our nature to nurture.
To nurture Nature is our duty.
And it’s our calling, too.

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