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...
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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Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
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