Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...
PROPOSITION, PROBLEM & POEM No. 248
~ Popular Acceptance or Rejection ~
How naïve it is to
suppose one's basic truths rightly chosen if one starts with a proposition
which is popularly accepted... For popular acceptance or rejection is no criterion
of a basic truth.
Aristotle
(384-322 BC)
The
text of course is taken from Posterior Analytics of Aristotle’s larger work
Organon. Prior the philosopher/logician emphasized the object of pure scientific knowledge must be demonstrative knowledge, obviously
contrary to one’s preference or presumption, contrarily more so to popular acceptance or rejection,
consequently fashionable notion, trendy whim, common sentiment, inclinable emotion
and political pursuits upon determinations monarchic, oligarchic, democratic
and more.
Government’s
polities, legalities even constitutionalities are then in direct opposition of any
logical methodology therefore any ethical ideology. Is such an indictment
convenient hyperbole? To consider further, the following reprise is necessary.
Logically
defined (see Proem & Poem No. 122), Politics is the pursuit to influence
and/or control political power, legal force, that is to say, the power thus
force to manipulate and confiscate others' behavior and resource without their
consent. The method to determine the use of power or force by democracy, oligarchy
or tyranny matters not. The method to implement the use of power or force by
communism, fascism or cronyism and their popular pacifier socialism matters
not. For all are clashes between political prerogatives versus personal
preferences, legal force versus human will, government taking liberties plural versus
individuals exercising liberty singular.
If
the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on all matters, as manifested by
the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, is observably logical, consistent thus
ethical as argued in this and previous two books, then anything contrary would
be observably illogical, inconsistent thus unethical. So it follows, if
Politics require the coercion of dissenters as proposed, supported then imposed
by consenters, then self-evident the contrast and conflict between the two
therefore both cannot be observably logical, consistent thus ethical. To
reverse engineer, what is observably logical, consistent thus ethical cannot be
two contrasting and conflicting considerations at the same time else grossly breached
the laws of logic.
William
Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) in his book Elementary
Lessons in Logic Deductive and Inductive published in 1870 (see
Proposition, Problem & Poem No. 225)…
These laws describe the very simplest truths, in which
all people must agree, and which at the same time apply to all notions which we
can conceive. It is impossible to think correctly and avoid evident
self-contradiction unless we observe what are called the Three Primary Laws of
Thought, which may be stated as follows:
1. The Law of Identity. Whatever is, is.
2. The Law of Contradiction. Nothing can both be and
not be.
3. The Law of Excluded Middle. Everything must either
be or not be.
Though these laws when thus stated may seem absurdly
obvious...I have found that students are seldom able to see at first their full
meaning and importance.
Additionally,
it is Ethics not Politics that desires freedom for oneself and all others thus
a return to individual responsibility and risk (again, see Proem & Poem No.
122). It is Ethics not Politics that seeks liberation from government's shackles
and chains hung heavy upon everyone's person, preference, possession and
property. And it is Ethics not Politics that insists the regard for one's own
Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters, inseparably
demands the respect for one's own Peculiar Human Ability to Reason on all
matters. Politics is contrary even hostile to all such things.
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Mortality uncoiling by (in)humanity’s madness, toiling
upon wailing
Amid the covetousness, though towers once ivory’ed now
Babel’ing
Foiled then failing per true frailties of false
sanctities regarded by all
O great the fall, grave the gall then vex as hexed, rex’ing
towards thrall
Surround the soul with the immaculate scarlet cord,
the one hope
Per slippery slope all now slide, else mid darkened hallways
to grope
Hands on walls, feeling the graffiti left by histories
of cruelties, wars
Tyrannies and more, thus scores of corpses for cronies
then whores
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Copyright © 2022 by D.C. Quillan Stone
