A message to the people who think cars will be our puppet masters forever.

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The solution to all this roundabout incremental talk is to stop speaking about it and understand that the simple answer under our noses is mile square car free areas, that area holding the scaled-down necessities of urban existence including work, play, education and residence. So simple nobody can understand it.

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Slow societal suicide

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Until planners get serious about what a car free world could be, communities that combine ALL aspects of life scaled to areas no more than a mile square, we will be adjusting to a car-centric world that will perpetuate sprawl, economic injustice and various other negative effects. That is not planning, that's slow societal suicide. #cybercommunities @stephencrose

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Morality is not moralism

Morality is not moralism.

Moralism is always judgmental.

Morality does not judge, it acts.

Morality is ethics.

Art reflects morality.

Art rises from ethics.

Truth is moral art.

Tacky art distorts reality.

Tacky morality is moralism.

Art is the sum of all actions.

Aesthetics is action, performance, manifestation.

Aesthetics is rooted in morality.

Morality is an index of values.

Values range from selfish to universal.

Values range from bad to good.

The highest morality is universal.

The highest values are universal.

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Mystery is no mystery.

Sense and reason are not opposed.

Feeling and reason are not opposed.

Freedom and reason are kindred.

Love and freedom and reason are kindred.

Body and mind are not opposed.

Being and nothingness are not opposed.

Everything does not end at two.

Everything proceeds to three.

Once there are three there can be infinity.

Matter and non-matter are of a piece.

Mystery is no mystery.

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Memorial Maxims - The Key to Education

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. This is the premise of my Kindle book Triadic Philosophy - 100 Aphorisms. Triadic Philosophy - 100 Aphorisms

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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.

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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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We will always have a language problem.

We will always have a language problem. Right now I am wrestling with C. S. Peirce folk about what constitutes a root triad - mine is reality, ethics, aesthetics and I would defend it against Peirce himself if he was about. What I will argue is that we make language and that increasingly it will come less from the academy than the world mind that the Internet is becoming. 
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PS A Note To  The Peirce List Aesthetic has been so tied to the "art world"  (Danto) that its universal meaning has not even begun to evolve. But we will change that. Aesthetics is a characteristic of all human action. The explication of the triad in terms of a sculptor (1st, etc...) is sort of fitting pieces of a puzzle. I see things differently. First is the utterly amorphous and vague and inexpressible penumbra I sense Pierce may have evoked. I see the second as a defining challenge. A bump in the road. I think conscious consideration can accept the free choice of the values-ethical nature of that challenge. If the aim of life is truth and beauty (reasonableness) then it might follow that the proper place for aesthetics is in the third position because aesthetics embraces all action and expression. It is performance. It is representation for real. I respect Peirce and I respect this list and I would respect the "verdict" that such discussion as this is peripheral, self-referential and so forth. If that is so, I will desist and be glad to carry on dialog with anyone who thinks I am on to something. 
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