Two Propositions on Humanity and Polity... See link for my weekly article at SubStack.
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It is not that any one person may be corrupt, nor one person more corrupt than another, rather every person therefore Human Nature corrupt... Thus government power of all forms corruptive...
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...
Remember then, that I directed you not to teach me some one or two holy acts out of many, but that very form by which all holy acts are holy… Teach me, then, the nature of that form itself, that looking to it and using it for our example, I may declare any of the actions of yourself or any other, which partakes of this nature, to be holy, and any not so partaking, not to be holy.
So eloquently stated Plato (428-347 BC) per his Euthyphro 6, as footnoted by William Thomson, Archbishop of York (1819-1890) in his 1842 book An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic.
May the mind diligently pursue moral understanding, to seek not lists of acts, behaviors, postures, nor seek to enumerate bills or articles of rights whether human or constitutional, instead seek to deliberate then determine observably, logically, consistently therefore ethically. In so doing, critically reducing lists, bills, articles of pluralities to a principle, morality, ethic, right of singularity by which all things are judged then condemned else justified.
If seeking to enumerate formally or informally two or more holy acts of many, if depending on the same holy acts, moralities, rights, ethics and/or rights to moderate either society or oneself, then ensured are various arbitraries, complexities thus inconsistencies as well contradictions, hypocrisies, confutations, discrepancies even conflicts, brutalities and more. For without an observable, logical, consistent therefore singular principle as the universal determinant, then inevitably arbitrary any list, bill, article of compiled holy acts, moralities, rights, ethics and/or rights.
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Worsened the naked intuition, the erroneous, excessive
propensities
Ah the sinful originalities (ergo hinted the skint
among the polities)
So go the spark off flint upon stone, the flame `low
muck and mire
Hardening to fuckin’ pride, hoisted thereon society’s
arrogant spire
Surrogates dire as ablated by liars, charlatans, schemers,
deceivers
Per covetousness, presumption, arrogance unrestrained
thus levered
Until fevered, hence believers of such nonsense,
ignorance, lunacy
Atrocious come nigh, vociferous the cry, ergo ill the
importunacy
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...
Forms (laws, theories) have triple mode of existence; they exist in the Divine Mind as ideas, and are the archetypes of creation; they exist as embodied in "instances" or examples, in which mode they are laws; they exist, lastly, in the human mind as ideas; thus they precede creation, they are in it, they succeed it.
William Thomson, Archbishop of York (1819-1890)
Taken from his 1842 book An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic, the statement indicates three modes, yet one implied albeit paramount; preexistence then persistence of principle.
To expected of course the following retort. What principle? He speaks of mode or process. However, the logical counter would be the reiteration of the same mode(s) or process(es) as the very basis of principle if not morality or ethic. Accordingly it has been numerously, variously agued in this and last two books, the mere existence of the peculiar human ability of reason demands an ethical consideration and posture, while the significant distinction among all other species by the same human peculiarity demands a moral outcry if intervened, interfered, imposed, interrupted, inhibited, intruded or invaded.
If observably, logically, consistently accepted the peculiar human ability to reason as undeniable, unavoidable indication towards a singular principle fundamental, moral, ethical, it greatly challenges the common view hence preference for such in plural forms; lists of moralities, bills of rights, tablets of commandments, volumes of ethics, books of admonitions/proverbs, and other inconsistencies thus complexities. For the aforesaid common view hence preference have historically facilitated innumerable depravities therefore atrocities, monstrosities, inhumanities levied upon the singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters, as manifested per the peculiar human ability to reason.
The same facilitation prevails today for the perceived good intention or imagined common good hobbles the discernment, befuddles the judgment, misdirects the conclusion while enlivens the self-righteousness.
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Upon the lush emerald hill she lays, then oddly
slumbers in saunters
Ponders `tween maunders, liken ancient sages amid
tombs and altars
O the mysteries as Love’s epistles and individuals’
logical passions
Numerous while exclusive to each and every person’s
sacred bastion
Worsened the naked intuition, the erroneous, excessive
propensities
Ah the sinful originalities (ergo hinted the skint among
the polities)
So go the spark off flint upon stone, the flame `low muck
and mire
Hardening to fuckin’ pride, hoisted thereon society’s
arrogant spire
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...
Do you think people today have good sense and judgment about practical matters? So inquired an informal survey to elicit public discussion, and as part of that discussion this poet retorted.
Every individual have the unique or peculiar human ability to reason, well utilized each passing moment. That is to say, reasoning utilized appropriately as so long the individual bears fully his/her own responsibility and risk. That is to say differently, there is never a passing moment when an individual is not reasoning, therefore reasoning constantly.
Therefore, grossly oxymoronic to suggest a person, as member of the specie human, is unreasonable. For to reason is human (see Proems & Poems Nos. 22-24, 33, 34), else to be human is to reason. Inconsequential thus quite different the matter whether the person's action or behavior are constructive versus destructive.
If the individual is not fully bearing his/her own responsibility and risk per assistance or intervention by others (parents, charities, etc) or by government (welfare, subsidies, grants, loans, prohibitions, regulations, monetary expansion, etc), hence responsibility and risk mitigated else negated, then the individual ability to reason becomes misdirected, distorted, corrupted even perverted, in parallel to inciting covetousness towards presumption and arrogance for more of the same.
To logically, consistently define, to reason is the ability to economize, prioritize thus determine per propensity, prerogative, preference, necessity, pursuit, objective upon knowledge or information gathered by experience directly (life lived) or experience indirectly (reading, studying, etc).
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Question neo-truths, hoary lies, either oft connived then
derived
Attired withal bane, polity then gains per the
contrived as strived
Slurred verses for blurred curses o’er private purses
then purposed
Covetousness fitly stirs as the public booty disperses
as rehearsed
Upon the lush emerald hill she lays, then oddly slumbers
in saunters
Ponders `tween maunders, liken ancient sages amid
tombs and altars
O the mysteries as Love’s epistles and individuals’ logical
passions
Numerous while exclusive to each and every person’s
sacred bastion
