My Epistemology

A comprehensive catalogue of my ever changing epistemology

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Metaphysics
Schopenhauer and Kant best express my metaphysics

Free Will
Metaphysical position loosely inspired by Actual Idealism

Within the context of a decision being made the decision is an exogenous variable, so there is free will

Ethics
Systems ethics

An ethical system based on some Utilitarianism and some kantianism

Essentially the idea of superrationality and dynamical systems with the ultimate goal of expansion and stability or greater and greater order. Different utilitarian calculus, leading to Our Greatest Grandson

Theology
Anthropological notes

Politics
Democratic peace theory

Sangha democracy

Though the democratic peace theory was not rigorously or scientifically studied until the 1960s, the basic principles of the concept had been argued as early as the 18th century in the works of philosopher Immanuel Kant and political theorist Thomas Paine. Kant foreshadowed the theory in his essay Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch written in 1795, although he thought that a world with only constitutional republics was only one of several necessary conditions for a perpetual peace. Kant's theory was that a majority of the people would never vote to go to war, unless in self-defense. Therefore, if all nations were republics, it would end war, because there would be no aggressors. In earlier but less cited works, Thomas Paine made similar or stronger claims about the peaceful nature of republics. Paine wrote in "Common Sense" in 1776: "The Republics of Europe are all (and we may say always) in peace." Paine argued that kings would go to war out of pride in situations where republics would not. French historian and social scientist Alexis de Tocqueville also argued, in Democracy in America (1835&#x2013;1840), that democratic nations were less likely to wage war.