Triadic Philosophy Commentary - The only way to "grade" reality I know

Make The Grade
The only way to "grade" reality I know  is not by presuming to rate what is real  in a semiotic process  but by the attainment of ethical  and aesthetic authenticity  in the action that ensues.  It is in action and actuality that  Reality (the First) can be evaluated  in terms of its attainments.  In terms of more or  less ethical values leading to more or less  aesthetic results.
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Virtues cut both ways. Values lead to progress.

Virtues cut both ways. Values lead to progress.  An elementary grammar of ethics reveals it What do courage, honor, hard work, patience, loyalty and carefulness have in common? They are all virtues. And they are all binary, meaning that they can be either-or, either positive or negative. Run through them. Any virtue can morph into the ugly, the harmful, the deleterious. Values stand up much better. They are ontological. The ontological values of Triadic Philosophy Democracy Tolerance Helpfulness Non-idolatry. They are generals, universals. Each can lead to considered actions whose results prove positive. These values powered  the Presidential election of 2012. Had the GOP won you would have heard the virtues noted here applied to the winners. Check out Triadic Philosophy 100 Aphorisms at  Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store 

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Charles Sanders Peirce has inspired me to understand values as ontological

CSP

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Charles Sanders Peirce has inspired me to 

understand values as ontological 

and tied to human will. 

Charles Sanders Peirce has encouraged me to

 herald the death of culture religion  (see Barth)  

and its evolution into a global spirituality 

based on values - 

lived in the immanent frame.
Charles Sanders Peirce has inspired me to 

wonder about my past 

as his family arrived in Watertown, MA, 

at about the same time  my ancestor 

Captain Hugh Mason settled there (1639) 

and I share many traits that have been 

ascribed to CSP and have had 

a “career” similar in some respects to his. 

Charles Sanders Peirce saw through things 

and was plain in his description of what he saw. 

Those who find him obscure 

may have vision problems 

or not. 

It depends on your philosophy.

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Will is the power that enables conscious, reasoned thought.

The Struggle

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Will is the power that enables 

conscious, reasoned thought. 

The reality of will and its fundamental power 

is central to Triadic Philosophy. 

We are confronted with mystery always.  

Thinking realistically carves out a space 

within the mystery 

for the consideration of Ethics 

and then enables an Aesthetic response 

that tends toward the beautiful and true. 

We have spent millennia 

locked in largely binary, 

dyadic modes of perception, 

leading to conflict in all areas of existence. 

We have denied the will to determine our destiny. 

We have subordinated values 

to the realm of pricing things. 

And we wonder where we are going. 

Triadic Philosophy demonstrates that 

the lineaments of a positive destiny 

 have been present all along. 

It was always possible to think in threes. 

It was always possible to find a way beyond 

a house divided. 

The proof lies in doing it. 

In this sense doing Triadic Philosophy may be 

the most significant action anyone can take.

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Triadic Philosophy -Ethics and Destiny A Brief Meditation

Ethics in Triadic Philosophy is the Second  in the foundation triad Reality Ethics Aesthetics It is always a brake a thus-far-and-(maybe)-no-farther a summons to wrestle with the reality of the moment Destiny is a First It is an aspect of Being  of Ontological Reality It is what signifies a particular life within the vast complex of all lives It has authority because it is real It needs and wants and deserves to be realized But in Triadic Philosophy Destiny and Ethics wrestle The result is a resolution within the third realm which is Aesthetics our hypothetical experimental effort to realize our lives in a way that resonates aesthetically
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Ethics poses to Destiny four ontological values  which enable us to mould our hypothesis  or plan of action to  permit an aesthetic response something we can see with pleasure and acceptance
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Let us say one's destiny is to be a rebel The four values are tolerance democracy helpfulness and non-idolatry They summon us to strain our rebellion through a colander of values that make for progress Progress is always self-realizing and world-realizing When done one hopes that one's actions will have something closer to beauty than ugliness closer to grace and joy than what disgraces and leeches joy from the world
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The Spectrum Nature of Humankind Trumps Original Sin

Original sin was a scapegoat cop out designed to leech from us all trace of dignity and make us prey to priestly ministrations likewise designed to make jelly of us The spectrum goes from primal to sublime and leaves us holding the bag for all we do not discluding our reaction to the so called acts of god We have the power to adjust our spots upon this spectrum  put the positives at any point to work for us That we now see a balance between this and the hoary ways of dampening religion is just a sign that says we may just finally come of age Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store



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Triadic Philosophy - Guidance Values Manifestation

Guidance is our solid guarantee That Abba hears and guides us on our way Giving us the values that prevail Enabling us to show them forth each day
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The Four Ontological Values of Abba's Way

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We live with Abba That would sound pathological if I did not believe that Abba is one way to talking about the divine spark in all Abba is one with ontological values in all
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Abba signifies these universal ontological values Willing these creates porogress Democracy  meaning universal rights Tolerance 

meaning strength to temper judgment Helpfulness  meaning putting others ahead of me Non-idolatry  meaning worshiping nothing on this planet

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What is truth Pilate asked which means he could not see

Seeing and hearing is the essence of the prophetic challenge It is echoed in Scripture from first Isaiah to Paul with a stop at Jesus on the way Anyone with a mind now sees the unfolding drama of the end of oil Chevron tries to ameliorate it with soft short term profit words but when whatever end to oil comes it will have been reasonable to stop using it long before we did and to begin building the post-oil world made manifest on the very pages of this blog car free integral and a quarter revolution beyond binary silliness
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The Lord's (Abba) Prayer Is Universal and Belongs to No Religion It Voices Universal Values

The Lord's Prayer is more radical  than the Declaration of Independence It invites every person on the planet to make earth heavenly It empowers the most radical practice that there is universal forgiveness It is a fountain from which tolerance democracy and helpfulness spring It is a source of non-odolatry

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There is no value greater than Abba

There is no value greater than Abba 
The one before whom every idol falls 
The voice in every person which still calls 
For whom Jesus did die on Golgotha 
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Occupy Wall Street can be a values revolution

Don’t Mistake Occupy Wall Street for Team Obama | Common Dreams: "But they don’t own Occupy Wall Street anymore. That was evident Thursday morning, when the encampment began to fill with even more arrivals. And some of the new faces showing up in Zuccotti seem more representative of the working-class angst gripping the country."

Nietzsche correctly said that the task of all creative human beings is the revaluation of values. We can see this as skewering the values that have reigned hitherto. Among these is honor, which has become the talisman of competition, warfare and hierarchy. Those who seek a different focus turn not to specific religions but to the universal perspectives found in persons who are the antiphon of honor and other "manly virtues". One derives from such an exploration the values of non-idolatry, tolerance, democracy and helpfulness, a quadrilateral cluster of values which remain true whether one accepts them or not. They roll back nominalism and concede a place for eternal verities. And for the eventual triumph of reason. We have progress apace even in a world where hysteria is easily manufactured and even encouraged by our corporate advertisers. But the revolution underway will "honor" to the nomads of the universe who embrace no platform save these values and insist that the world conform to them in all that is done. A values revolution!


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The Tao leaves everybody free to choose

The Tao leaves everybody free to choose

The values deep within us all 

These values can sustain the universe
It is when we ignore them that we fall

The Tao set forth the values of this world

The Tao set forth the values of this world

To set the ends creation would achieve

And conscious life is now discovery

Of what they are and that our choice is free

Character's a prison we don't need

Character's a prison we don't needVirtue is a scutcheon gone to seedValues are the product of free willAnd the engine of all history
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New Tao Posts: The Tao honors no one and uplifts all

New Tao Posts: The Tao honors no one and uplifts all:

Values are subjects. Characteristics and virtues are predicates. Honor is not a subject. But it has been denoted a value by no less than Aristotle. Nietzsche was right in calling for a revaluation of values. Without telling us what the new values were owing to life-changing encounter with a cruelly-beaten horse in Turin followed by a decade of essential captivity prior to his death.

The values of the Tao are only known

The values of the Tao are only known

When chosen freely over lesser ones

Then made to shine in actions of such worth

That happiness spreads freely on the earth 

The legitimate limit of tolerance

Norway Questions Its Tolerance Of Extremism : NPR

As a staunch advocate of tolerance as an active value which is central to our makeup, when we activate it, this story is a good place to pinpoint the limit that we may place on tolerance. It has precisely to do with the taking of life. And with any taking of life. Including in wars. Taking life, particularly when it is conscious or when there is awareness as in a drone attack, is evil. It cannot be countermanded by saying it is tit for tat save in war where the lex talionis eye for an eye is preferable to overreaching revenge. The Norwegian's action was and remains intolerable. He is personally fortunate to live in a country that does not practice the revenge of the death penalty. In time he may come to see and understand just how intolerable and against any valid understanding of what Jesus was about the evil of killing is.


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Leaven is in us yes

Leaven is in us yesFeel it grow
Abba within Mystery we know
This leaven has been started in us all

We need only answer Abba's call

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Four simple values can save this planet

Living by simple, doable values - democracy, tolerance, helpfulness, non-idolatry -  makes the difference between more of the same  and the unprecedented. As Derrida suggests, our only option is to choose  the unprecedented.

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