Necessity&justice inform responsible-human-independence

 

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 individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.

Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows:  "The good People of these" united states facilitate and encourage five civic disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, "in order to” develop responsible human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity.”I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.

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Necessity&justice inform responsible-human-independence

Civic&civil moralities are dominated by the mystery of the-God, whatever it may be. But necessity&justice drive human development.

Quora

https://www.quora.com/How-many-forms-of-ethics-are-there-and-which-form-do-you-consider-to-be-the-most-relevant? by Graham C Lindsay

Perhaps there are more forms of ethics than living persons on the planet. I think the ethics of discovery, yet to be established, is the most relevant for human necessity&justice.

I think political philosopher Albert Einstein, addressing science&religion, intended his audience to understand:  Research without integrity is ruinous and integrity without research is ineffectual.

Again, addressing science and ethics, I think Einstein hoped the audience would understand:  The laws of physics&offspring (offspring such as biology and psychology) determine ethics. Therein, his only example is that people of integrity don’t lie, knowing that physics will ultimately reveal the-ineluctable-truth.

Most people honestly don’t comprehend that integrity is a process. Upon encountering an issue, the concerned party does the research required to confirm that the issue is valid rather than a mirage; if a mirage, they record the negation for posterity’s efficiency; if valid, they do the research to discover the governing laws; they do the research to learn how to responsibly use the laws; if the research fails, they consider either feasible new research or pause for future invention of new instruments of perception. Attempts to act without the-ineluctable-evidence invite ruin.

For example, many people believe that the-God of creation exists. However, almost no one accepts a suggestion made before Abraham was born:  Humankind is able&responsible to constrain chaos on earth. Many civilizations prefer to explore the mystery of a-God that will usurp their responsibility to establish order&peace on earth rather than practice, encourage, and facilitate the humble-integrity required for individual, responsible-human-independence. Dissident fellow-citizens develop a life of dependency. Entitlement, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse are typical forms of dependency. For all we know, the author of the charge to humankind to develop responsible-human-independence was authored by Jesus, who reportedly said, “Before Abraham was born I AM.”

I think an achievable better future is possible if most people adopt the principle of responsible-human-independence. The suggestion is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28 and the USA’s declaration of war for independence from England and is proffered in the U.S.’s 1787 Constitution.

America’s pride in freedom bestowed by the winners in war and liberties licensed by the magistrate are unethical to the responsible-human-independence the people demand. Meanwhile We the People of the United States has accommodated tyranny since U.S. operations began under 11 states in March, 1789.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/If-you-were-to-compare-societies-as-if-they-were-organisms-a-single-human-being-the-equivalent-of-a-single-cell-what-would-the-similarities-be-in-your-description-The-differences? by A.N. Glassberg

Mr. Glassberg, I’m not certain I comprehend your complex question. But my first response is that some individuals do not accept being a human-being, and likewise, some societies do not accept being part of humankind. Therefore, humankind can only approach statutory justice. The sooner most individuals accept the necessity of responsible-human-independence, the sooner they can constrain&lessen chaos, in-order-to approach humankind’s perfection. Of course, I do not know the-ineluctable-truth and can only express opinion.

What is a human-being?

I understand that human-kind has emerged from 7 million years’ evolution of biped-placental-mammals in a branch called hominids. One hominid-branch developed sufficient awareness to invent tools, starting perhaps 2.8 million years ago, then branched to Homo Sapiens in the recent 0.3 million years. Homo Sapiens develop language, grammar, and ultimate psychology, sometimes expressed as in-the-image of the-God of creation. Homo Sapiens has the authority to apply personal-psychology either for the-good or for evil.

How is the human-person like a single-cell?

While each zygote began as an ovum joined with a spermatozoon, every ovum is unique in both physical and psychological potential. No event from ova-fertilization, to zygote-gestation, to birth, to education lessens the uniqueness of the newborn person. Whereas it takes a thoroughbred horse about 3 years to peak, it takes about 2 quarter-centuries for a person to develop the humble-integrity to practice responsible-human-independence: to become a human-being. Few persons develop their feral-infant unto a human-being. Too many persons settle for dependency: civil entitlement, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse.

How are the living species divided and what is the “humankind” role?

Most of the species in the last 7 million-years continue to evolve at the diverse cognitive-levels they possess, ranging from instinct to limited awareness. I understand that some modern breeds of dog are more aware than others and that the domestic cat preserved a relatively-high psychological-status for 7 million years. Some species, such as chimpanzee exhibit rudimentary reasoning; for example, expression of grief.

Homo Sapiens introduced a wonderful phenomenon: cultural evolution, driven by necessity&justice-on-earth. Homo Sapiens may be grouped according to social approach to humankind’s ultimate integrity. That is, performance according to the psychological image of the-God of creation, whatever that is. In other words, the-God may be a divinity, chaos, humankind’s posterity, physics&progeny, or something else. Societies may be graded according to their acceptance of their ability and self-interest in perfecting their performance as Gods facing death: lesser than the-God by inevitable personal-death. That is to say, as the society approaches perfection, it loses its identity and joins the-God’s intentions for humankind. Perhaps, under either physics or chaos, “intentions” refers to the best-quality-lifestyle Homo Sapiens posterity can achieve. Perhaps the ultimate Homo Sapiens is what we call “humankind”.

Among the species, only humankind has the potential to independently perfect itself.

Is humankind the ultimate-posterity’s branch of Homo Sapiens?

Under the above construct, Homo Sapiens is currently divided by individual intentions to develop lifestyle with necessity&justice according to the-God or not. The individual can gage&choose lifestyle to comport to the-God’s intentions. In other words, the individual can choose to perfect their person before afterdeath, that vast time after mind, body, and person stop functioning. But not every person makes this choice.

I don’t know of a society that teaches the following self-evidence:  The human-individual can develop the power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to practice responsible-human-independence (RHI). Doing so requires awareness and intentions, both of which can be encouraged&facilitated: not forced or coerced.

Dividing the complete human life into four segments, first, the newborn can receive encouragement and facilitation to take charge and acquire the comprehension&intention to live a complete human life. Second, more than a quarter-century later, the young adult can begin to earn the lifestyle they want in-order-to experience&observe human connections as they are and where they are. Third, in retirement, the individual can evaluate personal performance and make amends where necessary. Discussion with other individuals can clarify personal-benefits of experience&observations. Fourth, their person may share the-good their lifetime has affirmed and report the-bad for posterity’s benefit.

Responsible-human-independence

A political philosopher 45 hundred years ago suggested, in my 2021 comprehension, that Homo Sapiens are enabled&charged by the-God to independently order&enrichen life on earth for all species. The suggestion is expressed in the creation story in Genesis 1:26-28: “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground’” (emphasis mine).

I doubt the-God (whether divinity, chaos, physics, or other) would/can usurp humankind’s responsibility: responsible-human-independence. However, many civilizations teach their youth that the-God will show them the way to self-discipline rather than encourage&facilitate responsible-human-independence. In some civilizations, government persuades the people that legislators are the-God’s representatives on earth. Thereby, some individuals fatally forego HIPEA “for the common good”.

Aware or not, to attempt to avoid HIPEA, most individuals subject self to human-tyranny. Often, the tyranny is established and maintained by military power. By force&coercion, societies persuade people to forego responsible-human-independence to bargain for freedom-from oppression and license-to liberty. Freedom and liberty are bestowed by the victor in war whereas independence is a human-responsibility in self-interest. July 4 must be celebrated as responsible-human-independence day rather than freedom&liberty day. With appreciation to France, the statue in New York Harbor must be re-named “The Statue of Independence” on “Independence Island”, zip code 10004.

Returning to your question, Mr. Glassberg,

The physics of human reproduction takes us back to the zygote as the single-cell human person. Each fertilized-ovum is unique, so it follows in your analog that a society is unique. However, through personal choices, the person may build a life on dependency and thereby forego being a human-being.

After uniting with a spermatozoon as a zygote, the person may undergo gestation, delivery, and rearing. The ultimate consequence may be a person who developed either dependency or responsible-human-independence. On this choice rests the person’s opportunity to either responsibly pursue personal happiness or accept what someone else prefers for them. Many persons pass through life never recognizing this human possibility; some never choose to be a human-being.

If individuals in a society accept each of 1) being a human-being, 2) developing HIPEA, 3) developing humble-integrity, and 4) practicing responsible-human-independence, the society may deliberately reform its divisionary past and contribute to the establishment of humankind.

The society that contributes to chaos on earth is not unlike a feral, adult person.

I appreciate the motivation to write this essay and add your name and this date to my “appreciations” post at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com. I write and speak to learn and would appreciate comments.

 

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-the-tolerance-of-evil? by Hannah Gray

Ms. Gray, of course the tolerance of evil is not in the individual’s self-interest. Worse is the accommodation of evil, which tragically is socially-acceptable in the U.S.

About 45 hundred years ago, perhaps 85% of Homo sapiens development so far, a political philosopher suggested, as recorded in Genesis 1:26-28, that the-God of creation charges humankind to bring order&peace to the earth. Further, the suggestion implies that the human individual has the power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to constrain chaos on earth.

During these 45 hundred years, civilizations and cultures have attempted to construct their doctrinal-God so as to persuade gullible fellow-citizens that the-God usurps their HIPEA and will eventually grant peace. How a culture can inculcate in fellow-citizens the belief that their personal-God, a mystery, will usurp their responsible-human-independence, necessity&justice, is unfathomable.

The human being accepts neither freedom granted by the victor in war or public disturbance, nor liberty licensed by the magistrate. The human being demands the opportunity to develop humble-integrity by which to pursue responsible-human-independence.

Accommodation of freedom&liberty as surrogates for responsible-human-independence is evil.

Let’s celebrate July 4^th, Independence Day, with a new perspective: responsible-human-independence.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/What-carries-our-personal-identity? by Samir

Considering physics and its progeny, biology&psychology, the newborn infant carries the randomly selected chromosomes from its conception’s female&male gametes. Thereby, each newborn is a unique human-being with personal equity&dignity from dust to dust.

With encouragement&facilitation, each individual may perfect their unique person. With the existing civilizations, perfection is unlikely, because no culture inculcates in the young human-being their individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) to develop humble-integrity. A fortunate few accept both HIPEA and humble-integrity and use them to practice responsible-human-independence. Unfortunately, some who accept HIPEA use it to develop a dependency: crime, tyranny, religious-pride, evil, and worse.

Beginning my fourth quarter century, my life seems roughly split by quarters. First, I took responsibility to choose a career in research, to serve in that career, to apply the experienced&obeserved human-connections afforded by my 35-year career and 52-year family, and now to promote civic-integrity rather than civil-religion.

I perceive that my person, Phil Beaver, is identified by the accumulation of choices I made so far. I made many mistakes and used humble-integrity to gage my personal-integrity. I happily strive to daily practice responsible-human-independence in self-interest and in-order-to influence fellow-citizens to choose to be a human-being rather than one of the opposites: a dependent.

In my mind today was the literary suggestion in Genesis 3:19 (from dust to dust). (Cremation seems biblically preferred to burial.) It brings to mind that the minerals in a spermatozoon plus the minerals in the much-larger ovum are miniscule in quantity yet perhaps complete in quality for human life.

Other than the choices made during the journey, a person’s identity ends in dust.

https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-do-you-place-philosophical-processes-as-the-foundations-for-all-academic-thoughts? by Graham C Lindsay

Mr. Lindsay, sometimes I feel we are in dialogue.

Briefly, from what may be deemed ineluctably worthy of 2021 thought, homo sapiens is a branch of biped placental mammals evolved about 7 million years ago, branching into large-brain, tool-building humanoids about 2.8 million years ago and then into grammar-developing awareness about 300 thousand years ago. Homo sapiens is inspired, by necessity&justice, to survive. Metaphysicians say the-God created it that way, and use their doctrinal-God to attempt to persuade gullible human-beings to pay for blessings.

Humankind has evolved: from widespread ignorance to 2021 elite intentions, for example, by Jeff Bezos and his brother to safely-travel into space, 62 miles above the earth, next month. Meanwhile there are millions if not billions of starving children and millions of slaves.

In metaphysical words, the elites developed from the fog to awareness&ability in only 300 thousand years. Discovery&acceptance slowly lessen total ignorance yet not every person pursues personal perfection.

In humankind’s will to study for survival, there are two kinds of academic endeavors: to discover the-ineluctable-truth or to impose an opinion. The first employs research&integrity, and the second accommodates reason without research. The first accepts physics and its progeny (including biology and psychology), and the second develops influential-opinion for believers. The first seem civic-physicians, and the second, civil-metaphysicians. Discovery vs imposition. Discovery is in the idividual’s self-interest.

Perhaps 45 hundred years ago, a middle-eastern political philosopher expressed that “the-God-of-creation charged female&male-human-being to independently order&flourish in the earth.

I name female first, because the woman is born with ineluctable responsibility to constrain chaos for her viable ova for life. And the man is born to bond with a responsible woman for life. The authentic woman pursues a mate who will be faithful to their family, and a real man chooses a woman who attends to her physics and psychology not only for her sake but for her viable ova. That is to say, human equity&dignity begin with the ovum. These 2021 thoughts are gleaned from Genesis 1:26-28 and humankind’s discoveries since then.

We don’t know if the laws of physics and its progeny are sourced by potential energy unleased as the interchange of kinetic-energy and mass, according to Einstein’s general theory of relativity. We don’t know what initiated the big-bang about 13.8 billion years ago: a creator, the Creator, chaos, or a yet undefined “singularity”. I don’t know, and am prepared to be judged by Jesus during my afterdeath, that vast time after mind, body, and person stop functioning.

What humankind thinks is that neither a political group, nor a race, nor an individual knows the-God. Consequently, the person who claims to witness for God has in their best-interest to admit that the individual who accepts that they are a human-being is too powerful to abide such tyranny.

The person who appreciates the message expressed in Genesis 1:26-28 accepts the human individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to intend&practice responsible-human-independence.

It seems to me the philosophers create a journal of human dedication as either civic-physician or civil-metaphysician: students of the-good or advocates for a power; influencers to human-responsibility or to personal-dependency.

The agency/profession that is responsible to maintain the journal of discovery is journalism. Journalists record humankind’s journey toward statutory justice. That is, written law-enforcement-processes that affirm the necessity&justice that is required by the person who accepts that they are a human-being and responsible-human-independence is in their self-interest.

I think philosophers are the keepers of thoughts, the-good and the-bad, there will always be civic-physicians and civil-metaphysicians, and civic-journalists ought to maintain humankind’s discoveries, both positive and negative---record the journey to statutory-justice based on the ineluctable evidence.

The civic-philosophers state the problem and historical thought-development without making recommendations.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-favorite-philosophical-book-or-essay? by Isaiah Gray

Mr. Gray, I retreat from your question: I don’t’ know the answer.

However, I appreciate this occasion to ponder. I don’t see how one philosopher’s thoughts can be held as a favorite, because it depends on the writer’s contribution to your person’s open-mind. And your person chose to read or re-read the writing, often by happenstance, during your unique quest to perfect your person.

An example comes to mind regarding the tragic death of my son at age 19 in a head-on car crash. His mom and sisters had counselled him the night before: let the notion that his girlfriend may not love him have time; let HER have time. They called me in, and I listened, then said I could not make his choice, but that no matter how it turns out we love him: don’t forget.

The next day, our world changed forever.

I did not realize it: In conversation with my wonderful wife (MWW), I would invariably gravitate toward something she could have done differently. What horror!!! To her.

Tennis reminded me of the many times I played with my son: I could not take the pain. I quit a 10-years partner’s rotation suddenly one evening when I broke down. My friend John Harbo recommended I attend the 5-year Great Books Reading and Discussion Program (GBR&DP), then starting at our library. The first essay after “practicing” on America’s declaration of war for independence from England, was “Rothschild’s Fiddle”, by Anton Chekov. Marta and Yakov lost their only child, 5 years old. Yakov had made Marta a housekeeper for 45 years. I immediately stopped badgering MWW and saved our family-five, including Stephen’s memory. He died in year 22 of our 51-year marriage.

Thank goodness Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” stuck with me from the start. But his “Divinity School Address”, also a GBR&DP reading, has prose-poetry that demands study: after two decades I realized RWE asserts that Jesus was only a man that expressed the challenge that each human-being can perfect their person before death; that is, before afterdeath begins. Thereby, RWE does not seem in concert with either Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” or Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. “Divinity School” seems U.S. underground literature.

Plato, intentionally or not juxtaposes the civic-physician in a crowd of metaphysicians; that is, philosophy for the-good versus philosophy about what-nobody-knows. Socrates’s greatest gift was defense of the law, even when the verdict is unjust. Agathon’s speech in “Symposium” suggests both that the civic citizen neither initiates nor accommodates injury to-or-from any person and that Jesus’s possible-message of unique-personal-perfection existed 450 years before Jesus.

The author of Genesis 1:26-28, born more than 700 years before Abraham was born, asserted that, in 2021 awareness, female&male-human-being is independently charged by necessity&justice to constrain chaos on earth. For all I know, Jesus authored the message. If political philosophers had been promoting the Genesis 1 suggestion for 45-hundred years instead of arrogantly attempting to speak for the-God, a government, or the partnership of a God and government, chaos on earth might be lessening instead of diverging.

My favorite political philosopher is Albert Einstein. When he expressed, “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" I think he meant: Research without integrity is lame, integrity without research is ineffectual.

When I want to know what philosophers think about the basics, for example, “truth”, I search https://plato.stanford.edu/. Today, there are 1707 documents found. The first 10 seem essential. The search “objective truth” has 35 documents and “the objective truth” has 4. My favorite, “the ineluctable truth” has no articles. I use hyphens to encourage readers not to omit the meaning: the-ineluctable-truth. Flannery O’Connor in “Mystery and Manners” seemed to agree in her own way.

When I want to listen&learn, I check Quora questions addressed to me. Thank you.

(During the last couple weeks I met Isai Ventura. “Isai” means “God is salvation”; not too different from
“God saves”. Human-life is wonderful!)

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June 15: U.S. fellow-citizens may each choose to be a human-being rather than a dependent---criminal, tyrant, religiously-proud, evil, and worse.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

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