COMPLEMENTARY ETHICS

Abstract

A basic idea of complementary reflection is that ethics and morality do not concern themselves solely with right and wrong actions or with good and bad conducts but primarily also with the joy and sadness of human action. It is therefore not enough to state that an action is good or right. Such an action must also be a source of joy for the actor. Hence, a morally good act is one, which is performed in the consciousness that it has a comprehensive and total outreach and with a view of being a source of joy to the actor and is capable of radiating such a joy in a dynamic complementary future referential manner. To act is to act for the joy of being and to act is to have the imperative of complementarism fully realised in all existential situations. It is under this condition that missing links of reality function as modes of expression of being in history.