( In order of appearance below : unity, education, politics, life, death, adulthood, values, purpose, strategy, tactics, governance, economics, ethics, metaphysics, spirituality, common sense, philosophy, risk management )
Unity is a farce, in the sense that every individual is disposable - if their individual cost exceeds the collective needs of the union. That is how it is with multicellular organisms, and that is how it is with multiorganism organisations. Individual programming holds each individual in place, at various degrees of willingness to keep (within a certain range ) their social cost. That is why education is nothing more, and nothing less than politics.
- In a world of many, the [ person : as an individual organism ] begins ( being programmed by others ) according to the needs of society at the time.
- In a world of one, the person programs themself according to what is known about their own continuous individuality, including factors that define their own ends for perpetual existence, or eventual demise. < Sidenote : Adulthood as defined by society, is simply the point at which the education of the individual transitions, from being the responsibility of society, to being the responsibility of the person. A society may define childhood as perpetual. >
Politics is therefore merely teleology. That classical word, means the study of [ ends : goals, objectives, purposes ]. Laid out roughly, this is a progression, from intuited values, to precise goals, to strategies, to tactics. A modern phrase, which may be easier understood by rational materialists, is [ control engineering : other modern words referring to a similar concept, are governance, and cybernetics ].
In summary,
1. the following are identities :
- all talk of unity,
- philosophy of education,
- politics in progress, and
- governance as a process.
Therefore, everyone who participates in the discussion of what makes an individual maintainable or disposable, in any context, reifies all these named concepts at once.
2. Wherever quantitative methods are applied, it is further named :
- economics.
3. In short, all these bear the name :
- [ ethics : questions of the general form, "what should we do?" ]
< Sidenote : a classical phrasing, is that ethics depends on [ ontology : a.k.a. metaphysics, questions of the general form "what exists?" ].
- This then points us to mathematics and the natural science as dependencies for a MORE rational approach to 1.
- Whereas, broadening ontology includes LESS rational, non-scientific, natural-language, alternative-traditional, concepts ... including such notions as : spirituality, common sense, and custom.
The sum of ethics and metaphysics, is generally referred to as philosophy.
When philosophy is applied to itself, it is conveniently referred to as metaphilosophy, whose concerns include [ epistemology : questions of the general form, "how do we know what we know?" ]. >
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