February 1, 2018

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for responsible freedom more than for the city.

A personal paraphrase of the June 21, 1788 preamble:  We the civic citizens of nine of the thirteen United States commit-to and trust-in the purpose and goals stated herein --- integrity, justice, collaboration, defense, prosperity, liberty, and perpetuity --- and to cultivate limited services to us by the USA. I am willing to collaborate with other citizens on this paraphrase, yet may settle on and would always preserve the original text.   

  

Today’s thought, G.E. Dean (Mark 5:36 CJB), The Advocate, February 1, 2018, 7B.

“Ignoring what they had said, Yeshua told the synagogue official, "Don't be afraid, just keep trusting."

Dean says, “You have a choice. Fear or faith in God. Which will it be?”

  

I forsake fear and faith for fidelity.

A free and responsible press may ponder: First, do no harm.

Other forums

quora.com/What-philosophies-or-schools-of-thought-advocate-or-highly-regard-individualism

You might be interested in a scholarly review, such as my favorite starting point: plato.stanford.edu/entries/methodological-individualism/. However, philosophy scholars’ duty to students is to review reason-based opinion. I find philosophy-opinion endless.

I like to consider my individual---the person who has my body and mind. He has the inalienable authority to spend his energy discovering private preferences. In a trivial example, he prefers dark chocolate, tolerates milk chocolate, and rejects white chocolate. So far, he prefers doing all he can to help his family (including himself) and other people enjoy life according to private dreams.

In pursuing that preference, he prefers to conform to, respectively, the-objective-truth, his awareness and understanding, and his view of happiness. Therefore, he never stops listening, reading, thinking, and writing. He talks and writes to learn---to increase awareness and understanding.

The-objective-truth exists, and can only be discovered. However, discovery is often limited by awareness and understanding. In other words, the more humankind knows, the more they explore. Also, there is so much to know, the individual cannot possess total awareness and understanding.

Thus, the individual may invite awareness and understanding. Whether by the fact that humankind has not yet discovered an-objective-truth or that the individual is not aware of an-objective-truth, appreciative human behavior is to admit, “I do not know,” when that is so. Conversely, the humble individual does not doubt the-objective-truth. For example, the earth is like a globe. And lying never pays.

If most individuals accepted that they have the human authority to develop fidelity to the-objective-truth, many might acquire the judgement by which to avoid infidelity. The collection of humble individuals, few or many, could help humankind enjoy an achievable, better future.

The collective goal is private liberty with civic morality. In other words, individuals collaborating for individualism.

I hope these ideas seem open-minded and helpful.

    

Phil Beaver does not “know” the actual-reality. He trusts and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. He is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com.