Immanuelle's Ethics

These are notes for the book based on Spinoza's Ethics written by Immanuelle Leonhart. It is also based on Euclid's Elements to some extent. Not to be confused with Immanuelle's Elements which is totally different

Before the preface
Don't skip the preface. The preface of this book is the most important part. It may not be to your taste, and if it isn't then you must read it and play sports until it is to your taste. Join the Lambda Covenant, climb a mountain, and Counter-Spiral.

I don't mean this metaphorically. You can't start with propositions. Starting with propositions is setting yourself up for suffering and delusion.

In the future this book will need to be translated. Keep the vulgarity.

Requirements to read this book
In order to get the most from this book I have made a modest list of requirements to complete before reading it. This book is meant as a compilation of propositional epistemology, and as such you should have mastered phenomenal and procedural epistemologies before attempting to understand propositional epistemology. Having these experiences will ensure that you have a fully fleshed out procedural epistemology before advancing to propositional. General phenomenal competence and general procedural competence are essential prerequisites for any general propositional theory.


 * Lived in another country
 * Had sex with a man
 * Had sex with a woman
 * Sexually penetrated someone (no anatomical exceptions, girls get pegging)
 * Been sexually penetrated
 * Fired a gun
 * Converted to Islam
 * Apostasized from Islam
 * Crossdressed
 * Been in a plane
 * Lost a fight
 * Won a fight
 * Been in a helicopter
 * Hitchiked in the former Soviet Union
 * Had a near death experience
 * Broken a bone
 * Climbed a mountain
 * Drank alcohol
 * Smoked weed
 * Used amphetamines
 * Used opioids
 * Used benzos
 * Drew your name in snow with pee (girls must do this too)
 * Detonated explosives
 * Beaten Celeste
 * Been to all continents
 * Gone to a war zone as a tourist
 * Made a million dollars in lifetime income

The Phenomenal
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour" As you read the phenomena shine across the horizon.

The void reveals itself, yet the void is eternal

All encompassing and infinite.

Enter the void and it will tear you apart

Hide from the void and its waters will flood around you

Things shine and retreat

The void is terrifying vacuum

Yet you can master it

Children master it

Have faith not belief

Cry, crawl, walk, run

See a tree? Climb it!

See your mother? Embrace her!

See God? Commune with her!

Be here not there!

The Procedural
See an ocean? Swim in it!

The frigid waters are shocking

Yet they are warm

Jump on and swim

And you jump in

Move your arms and swim

But you can't swim

Flap your arms and legs but nothing happens

I rescue you and we try again

So you try tomorrow

You fail

Again and again

After a month you succeed

You swim and swim and swim

And now you see two islands

Which one do I swim to?

Only now you need facts.

Preface
Now we are at the propositional

You only need facts when you can use them

Which Island is better? That only matters if you can make the choice of which one to swim to.

The propositional submits to the procedural and the procedural to the phenomenal

There's no use of propositions without procedures to use them.

There's no use of procedures without phenomena to experience them.

The phenomena is good in itself.

Is this circular? No! The phenomenal needs no propositions, the phenomenal exists before propositions.

A proposition about the phenomenal is looking in the mirror. The narcissist values their reflection over their self, the sage sees their self as the value.

The proposition "the phenomenal is valuable" is a tautology for the existence of propositions presumes this.



We do need these tautological claims about the phenomenal though, but they are for the benefit of the propositional not the phenomenal.

Propositions are lonely children. If they don't know their parents it becomes Lord of the Flies

Them knowing their parents doesn't make them become their parents. They aren't time travelers becoming their own parents.

The phenomenal is the Alpha, procedural is the Lambda, propositional is the Omega.

Preface Old
There's difficulty in expressing concepts like non-propositional knowing because they have to be done so in propositional form

This gives an illusion of circularity, but it is not present. One does not need propositional knowing to understand perspectival knowing, because it is propositionally understood through propositions.

This is not a circularity though any more than writing about the origin of alphabets requires using an alphabet and speaking about the origin of languages requires language and thinking about the origin of brains requires a brain.

The propositional mind doesn't always need to understand it's origin, it doesn't need to understand why it exists to manage information of which Island to swim to, but it does sometimes need to understand it's origin.

This is specifically true when it comes to building comprehensive epistemologies and philosophies. The temptation towards placing propositions over phenomena is very strong. This is why you need to do some fucking and fighting and climb a mountain before you can even build an epistemology.

And no girls, having a vagina is not an excuse. Gender isn't real, so quit acting like it is and go fight someone and peg someone. If you can't do this then you're still too stuck in your female socialization to do philosophy.

Knowing
This is an attempt at definitions for different kinds of knowing.

We are now discussing in the propositional mode. I assume you have done your homework now. That you've fucked, climbed mountains, spoken to God, fought in the Donbass, beaten Celeste, and all the other prerequisites for understanding propositions.

Definitions

 * Proposition
 * A modular piece of information capable of being used in procedures
 * Modular - It is small and capable of being moved
 * Usefulness (as applied to a proposition)
 * a trait of propositions
 * allows them to be used as input in procedures to perform the procedures successfully by an agent
 * General Usefulness
 * An extension of the trait of usefulness
 * Is able to be used by many agents across many procedures to achieve goals
 * Contrasts with particular usefulness
 * Particular usefulness
 * A proposition being useful but only in certain situations
 * For example believing a bus will leave at 3:30
 * bus leaves at 3:35
 * great for someone who wants to catch the bus
 * Terrible for someone who wants to avoid the bus
 * Truth (of a proposition) = General Usefulness
 * Truth is not absolute, general/particular usefulness depends on context
 * Well-constructed proposition
 * A proposition which is constructed by a reliable procedure
 * For example the scientific method
 * Logical inference from other propositions (logic is a procedure)

Propositional knowing
Well-constructed generally useful proposition


 * Well-constructed
 * Procedures create it
 * Generally
 * Can be generalized across many procedures, not just one
 * Useful/True
 * Useful links back to procedural knowing
 * Able to be used by procedures
 * Proposition
 * Modular piece of information

Procedural knowing
Procedural knowing is knowing how to do something

Procedural knowledge can use propositional knowledge, but propositional knowledge is useless without procedural knowledge

Learned ability to perform a task


 * learned
 * not innate
 * ability

Phenomenological knowing
Perspectival knowing provides context for and is modified by procedural knowing

Seeing the right task for the job