The ultimate function of morality

 Since Nietzsche philosophers have increasingly thought that “truth” is more or less a relative thing because words or metaphors hide bedrock truths. Then they go on to say therefore all truth is relative. Nietzsche wondered whether power or music or dance was a clearer way bedrock truths could be expressed.

I think the best human expression of reality exists in the bedrock of biology, which is at the origin of all social behavior, including philosophy and religion. As long as we are alive every cell in our body demands survival and reproductive success. This natural activation can be blocked, subverted, or it can be unknown to us, but it can't legitimately be intellectually or instinctively denied. This will-to-the-survival of our genes is at the core of our being. As Edward O. Wilson put it : "The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior . .is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact. Morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function." Edward O. Wilson.

I only quibble with last line “morality has no other demonstrable ultimate function” because I believe that natural law includes our material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood, so it affirms the rational science inherent in classical natural law as aiding in our evolution to Godhood. Natural law in theological materialism brings a conservatism grounded in the order of material evolution to ascending levels of Godhood, which counters both the stagnation of traditional conservatism and the nihilism of modern thinking.