Tag: Metaphysics
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On Archetypes
Our thought forms are biased based on patterns that fit into our taste profile for symbolic structure, and I see these structured thought forms as archetypes which are based not on some transcendent reality beyond our awareness, but are built upon the hidden factors that lead to and construct the human condition. Over evolutionary time,…
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On Symbolic Engineering
A liberating thought passed through my mind again: Amovera. And with it, the entirety of what I was working on in theology was reduced again to objective reality, and I saw again the framework of Symbolic Engineering as the ideal mode of understanding ethics, religion, and politics. As my mind shifted to the new modus…
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On Rights and Duties
Delegation of responsibility is simply how our society allows for more people to do more things and increase the technological advantage of craft. The more technology develops, the more focused people need to become to manage the complexity, and the less people need to generalize to survive. There are then both positive and negative incentives…
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On Justice
A safe and secure society does not come about on its own, and it is not as simple as keeping people safe from bodily harm either. For there to be a just society, there needs to be a philosophy of what aspects of the human condition we protect, and how we go about making that…
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On Amorvera
Linguistic Anthropology informs us that meaning is crafted by human cultures. This means that before human culture crafts meaning as a mode of assigning values to concepts and things, there is no meaning, no value, to anything. The world is then just an absurd chemical reaction, without any intelligence or purpose behind any of its…
Jack's New Ethos 