Four types of behavioral disciplines: moralism, behavioral aesthetics, ethics, morality.

1. Moralism is behavior disciplined to conformity with codified behavioral standards. Moralism is rational.
2. Behavioral aesthetics is behavior disciplined to satisfy one’s own spontaneous sense of goodness and rightness. Behavioral aesthetics can be original or derived, and it can have an introverted and/or extraverted character. On this basis, it would be possible to divide behavioral aesthetics into subtypes, but here what defines behavioral aesthetics is that the behavior is a thing to be experienced and judged on the qualities of the experience. (Obviously, but for the sake of parallelism) behavioral aesthetics is aesthetic.
3. Ethics is behavior disciplined for the purpose of preserving conditions that sustain and give constancy to one’s own existence. Ethics is practical.
4. Morality is behavior disciplined for the purpose of reconciliation with being that transcends one’s own existence. Morality is metaphysical.

Culture requires the coordination of all four types of behavioral disciplines.

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The big question of morality: how can something exist to a mind, when that something stands beyond its existence (including its experience of existence)?

It is possible to reduce the exophanic to mere experience: an experience of the transcendent announcing itself, while requiring nothing beyond the acknowledgment of beyondness. Are there other responses to the exophanic that could reveal the transcendent existence that announces itself through the exophanic experience?

It is possible to understand pain as an exophanic reflection in events and things, but it is also possible to understand the same pain as caused by those events and things.