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A Moralistic Framework: Truth-Driven Relativism

December 09, 2024

1. Ontological Primacy of Truth
   - Truth exists as an objective, discoverable reality
   - Moral understanding is a process of increasingly accurate perception of this fundamental reality
   - Truth is not static but dynamically revealed through rigorous inquiry and open-minded exploration

2. Epistemic Principles
   - Knowledge is provisional and continuously evolving
   - Genuine ignorance is not a moral failing if accompanied by a sincere commitment to understanding
   - The pursuit of truth takes precedence over the maintenance of existing beliefs
   - Intellectual humility is a core ethical virtue

Moral Methodology

3. Hierarchical Moral Construction
   - Objective truths form the foundational layer of moral reasoning
   - Contextual agreements emerge from shared understanding of these truths
   - Moral systems are adaptive frameworks, not immutable laws

4. Ethical Decision-Making Process
   - Evaluate actions based on:
     a) Alignment with discoverable truths
     b) Contextual understanding
     c) Potential for expanding collective knowledge
   - Prioritize learning and growth over rigid adherence to existing rules

Practical Ethical Principles

5. Individual Moral Responsibility
   - Obligation to:
     a) Continuously seek understanding
     b) Challenge one's own assumptions
     c) Remain open to reinterpreting existing knowledge
   - Moral worth is determined by commitment to truth-seeking, not by perfect adherence to a fixed moral code

6. Interpersonal and Collective Dynamics
   - Moral agreements are collaborative constructions
   - Differences are resolved through:
     a) Shared commitment to truth
     b) Rigorous dialogue
     c) Mutual intellectual respect
   - Recognize that cultural and individual contexts shape, but do not define, moral understanding

*pistemological Safeguards

7. Mechanisms for Truth Verification
   - Empirical observation
   - Rational analysis
   - Interdisciplinary cross-validation
   - Continuous questioning and re-examination of existing knowledge

8. Limitations of Understanding
   - Acknowledge the inherent complexity of truth
   - Accept that our current understanding is always incomplete
   - Maintain a stance of philosophical humility

Ethical Virtues

9. Core Virtues
   - Curiosity
   - Intellectual honesty
   - Empathy
   - Courage to challenge existing beliefs
   - Commitment to collective understanding

Metaphysical Perspective

10. Existential Orientation
    - View morality as a dynamic process of collective truth-discovery
    - Reject both moral absolutism and nihilistic relativism
    - Embrace a constructive, evolving approach to ethical understanding

This framework of Truth-Driven Relativism offers a flexible yet rigorous approach to ethics that values objective truth while recognizing the complexity of human understanding and experience.
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BODY

The Living Boundary

Your body is not one boundary. It’s boundaries all the way down.

○ is body as interface. It’s the place where inside meets outside, where you open and close, where you breathe in air, take in food, receive touch, absorb experience. It is not a wall. It’s a selective membrane—alive, responsive, and always in motion.

Try This

Close your eyes and feel where your body ends and the air begins. Notice how many tiny sensations are being woven into that one felt “edge.”

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Φ

MIND

The Field Between

Φ is mind as field—the living medium between center (•) and boundary (○). It’s the whole relational space where signals from the body come in, where awareness from the center flows out, and where the two blend into conscious experience.

Try This

Notice your body breathing by itself. That’s ○. Now notice that you’re noticing. That reflective awareness is flowing from •. Then feel the space in which both are happening. That’s Φ.

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•

SOUL

The Aware Center

• is soul as center—not a substance lurking somewhere inside you, but the point of view from which everything is seen. It is the structural center of the whole circumpunct.

Bodies change completely over a lifetime. Memories blur, identities shift. And yet, there’s a sense that the one who was there then is the same one who is here now.

Try This

Close your eyes. Notice your breath. Then, gently, turn attention back toward that awareness itself—not the objects in it, but the fact that knowing is happening. That’s •.

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⊙

CIRCUMPUNCT

The Whole You

⊙ is the circumpunct: a circle with a point at the center. The circle is the boundary that holds everything that is “you” as a single system. The point is centeredness—the soul that experiences from within.

Instead of thinking, “I have a body, I have a mind, I have a soul,” you can think, “I am ⊙: a whole being whose body, mind, and soul are three faces of the same process.”

Try This

Feel your body as one shape (○). Notice the space of awareness in which thoughts arise (Φ). Sense the quiet center that’s aware of all of this (•). Then soften your attention to hold all three at once. That’s ⊙.

You are not on your way to being ⊙. You are ⊙, right now.

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