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Triadic Philosophy is a ground-breaking way of thinking that is universal.

Triadic Philosophy is a ground-breaking way of thinking that is universal.  

Anyone can and should do it.  

It can be explained simply.  

It is a way of thinking in threes.


First,  we take a reality we want to deal with.

Next,  we run that reality past the terms

tolerance,

democracy,

helpfulness

and non-idolatry.


This is the universal ethical index of Triadic Philosophy.


Finally,  we consider a response that aspires to truth and beauty.


Three stages -

Reality,

Ethics,

Aesthetics.


To get the hang of this, get

Triadic Philosophy 100 Aphorisms


The texts are meant to be savored and considered over time. 

C. S. Peirce said [EP2:258], "Whenever we set out to do anything we ‘go upon’, we base our conduct on facts already known."  He added that our conduct can only rise from memory when our investigations have been "made and reduced to a memorial maxim.”  He is right.


We literally imbibe the values by which we live, turning them into the agenda of our minds.


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"Sto Perigiali" One of the Surpassingly Best Tunes Theodorakis Has Written

A Setting for a Poem "Denial" Beloved by the Greek People by the Nobel Prize Winning Poet Giorgos Seferis

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The remarkable video at the link above is of a performance of "Sto perigiali" Mario Frangoulis and Mikis Theodorakis in 2001.

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Stephen C. Rose Bio

Stephen C. Rose (1936-) was born in New York City and raised there. He currently lives there. He was educated at Trinity, Exeter, Williams and Union Theological Seminary. He served in the Student Interracial Ministry in Nashville. He founded and edited the prize-winning Renewal Magazine in Chicago and studied with C. A. Doxiadis in Athens. His first books "The Grass Roots Church" and "Who's Killing The Church" established him as a prominent critic of American Protestantism and American religion. He was and remains a civil rights activist. He has interviewed and done in depth pieces on Saul Alinsky and Martin Luther King, Jr. He won awards for editorial courage and for two documentary films. He has written and published many songs and musical works including "We Are All Americans". During the late 90s and early 2000s he worked for UN agencies, most recently editing CHOICES Magazine at UNDP. Since 2000 he has written several books for distribution via K…
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