Donnadogsoth Posted September 13, 2015 Posted September 13, 2015 In another thread I talked about the masculine qua masculine, and the feminine qua feminine. The four characteristically masculine traits, identified by Jack Donovan, are Strength Courage Mastery Honour Which define the characteristics needed for the hunt. Added together these things form mechanical advantage which is precisely what you want on a hunt or a fight. The four characteristically feminine traits, which I identified, are Intuition Nurturing Beauty Guile Which define the characteristics needed for the hearth as defined in relation to the children, the hunters, and the other women. The hunters want beautiful wives, the women need intuition and guile to deal with the hearth and the hunters' mechanical advantage, and to compete with other women, and nurturing to deal with children. Added together these things form flowiness which appeal to the hunters and allow for flexible advancement of reproductive goals. These two essences, mechanical advantage and flowiness, are at war, in terms of psychology and sexual selection. This does not mean men and women as humans are at war; far from it, in principle. But the male ultimate machine-mind is in contest with the fluidity and flexibility of the female mind. I'm bringing this up not to debate this as such, but to ask after the human qua human. I have an idea that it also has four traits, and I'm presenting them here to get feedback on that. The four traits are, Reason Love Curiosity Praxis Reason as in the capacity to discover universal principles of art and science. Not much meaning to the word “human” without that. Love as in a love of reason, specifically love of any individual who is reasoning or has reason as a capacity. This is why we help people, including especially why we help and raise our children to be human. Curiosity is needed to pursue reason. We might call this the “holy spirit of childhood” for there is little more dispiriting than meeting an incurious child who takes no zest in life. Praxis is the desire to wreak concrete change in the world. Without it love is merely emotional and reason theoretical. These four traits are necessary for humanity to reach the heavens, by discovering principle, implementing it in the universe, and reproducing and raising a new generation that will do likewise, for the sake of increasing humanity's happiness and power to survive. EDIT: Added together these four things form creativity. 1
Magnetic Synthesizer Posted September 14, 2015 Posted September 14, 2015 Not much mention of ethics. ''universal principles of art and science'' I think all human endevours fall within 3 categories: survival, virtue and curiosity. survival as the only value or justification has earned utilitarism a bad name. Sophists use argument for/from effect a lot. Survival is a means to an end. The end being curiosity. What are you gonna do when there's no evil left? play. discover. experiment.
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