Biology of love
Ashley Montague’s view of humans is that they are nothing more but specialized animals, that all of our actions are just like animals in a cause-effect relationship of need and satisfaction. But the beautiful thing is that we are specialized to love one another. This is one thing that I can say absolutely describes a rule in my integrity. Since the absolute good for me is the probing of the universe and ourselves to find their meaning, love is the first step. For an entire world of human effort to discover themselves and their environment they must first trust their biology to love each other. Society’s creation of respect for wealth, and materialistic objects has created a social disorder among humans today. It might be a quantum leap to say this but I believe this leads humanity to fighting itself. War is always self destructive and it is created by materialism (again this is a leap but it serves my point). This makes it so war is utterly against my integrity. To be a complete human one must do all they can to discover themselves, others, and the universe. Montague biologically justifies the need for love. She says that it is within us at birth to be dependant on other humans for survival starting in the womb. If humans cannot maintain the support needed to satisfy their need for love from others are they a whole person? According to my definition of integrity they are not whole or complete. A sever in the tie to others is severance to integrity. It seems so simple, and love is readily available upon realization but there is another human condition that conflicts with this. The need to perpetuate the self at expense of others is this unfortunate condition. When we are born we are not even aware of empathy at all, it is a developed emotion (look up any child development research). This is perhaps why war exists. Humans are able to simplify empathy and ignore it totally because it just isn’t part of our biology initially. But then again it is because of empathy that we are able to love one another. This means that empathy can be a folly or fortification to our love for one another.