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A Breakthrough in International Relations has emerged on the world scene with respect to the new book-release: World Peace 2.0 - Restoring Global Harmony. This newly devised master hierarchy of traditional virtues and values is formally based upon behavioral principles, wherein the moral commonalties across all religious traditions are emphasized encouraging a new era in religious cooperation. This new ethical system eminently qualifies as the long anticipated foundation for a global system of planetary ethics serving a secular constituency, where such moral issues have typically been downplayed due to well-meaning attempts to avoid religious favoritism. This same system further serves as a crucial adjunct to the major religions of the world without favoring any one of them, promoting a new era in peaceful religious coexistence in that it does not preclude the existence of a top-down pattern of influence of a supernatural nature as well. Consequently, this new ethical innovation potentially amounts to the best of all possible worlds: promoting an ethical revival in the secular world, as well as the potential for an even greater degree of spiritual cooperation and religious tolerance across all of the established religions of the world. ___________
(Excessive Virtue) .... (Transitional Excess)
+ MAJOR VIRTUES .... LESSER VIRTUES _________________________ O ...... NEUTRALITY STATUS __________________________
– VICES OF DEFECT ...... CRIMINALITY
– – HYPERVIOLENCE .. HYPERCRIMINAL.
_______________________________________________ The most salient feature of this eight-part diagram concerns a centralized zone-of-neutrality designating a neutral point of initiation for all new channels of communication to follow. The upper segments of the diagram represent positive aspects based upon cooperation, as reflected in the major and lesser virtues. The lower segments are alternately based upon conflict/punishment designating the vices of defect and the realm of criminality. The remaining categories (based upon excess) include the communicational factors underlying the mental disorders, as well as the darker realms of hyperviolence and hypercriminality (a more detailed description of this format is provided in the adjacent right-hand column of smaller text). These cohesive moral categories offer unprecedented insights into the sphere of ethical inquiry, expanding Aristotle’s Theory of the Mean into an all-inclusive theory of everything of a moral nature. Far from remaining a purely academic exercise, this timely innovation addresses many issues of critical import towards preserving global peace and harmony, as in issues of hyperviolence in relation to international terrorism. Undoubtedly the greatest potential for this emerging technology resides in its all-inclusive nature, accounting for virtually every major ethical tradition present on the world scene today, an invaluable resource for research into the field of human potential. A complete major listing of terms is depicted in the master table immediately below, mirroring the organization of the more basic schematic format shown above ...
The distinctive groupings of virtues, values, and ideals (highlighted within this system) all appear linked on an intuitive level, suggesting a clear sense of overall cohesiveness. When the virtuous realm is further contrasted with the parallel realm of the vices (in all of its various manifestations), the resultant master hierarchy amounts to a grand total of 1,040 individual terms. A further crucial innovation unique to the current revised edition invokes a radical expansion of the notion of the accessory perspectives of the general motivational themes. The inherent versatility of the human mind (by definition) allows for a subjective reflection on the objective perspectives of another, allowing crucial insights into affiliated feelings/motivations, an aspect traditionally known as empathy. This unique ability to attribute mental states to others is a key factor in what truly makes us human, an aspect that developmental psychologists refer to as Theory of Mind. This innate facility towards empathy depends primarily upon our ability to run cognitive simulations, whereby inferring the intentions and motivations of others by employing one’s own mind as a conceptual template for that of others. This necessarily entails placing oneself in the role of another and further observing how one’s mind resonates within such a mutually overlapping context. This reflective style of role reversal, in turn, specifies the existence of an entire parallel complement of ethical terms suitable for de-signating this dual degree of versatility. Indeed, the English language is richly blessed with a broad number of synonyms conducive to outlining this parallel complement of accessory terms. A complete listing of accessory terms is depicted below, a two-page layout mirroring the main complement of terms depicted above.
For instance, for the personal realm, the proposed accessory class of ego states (ambition-deference-passion-consideration) is effectively complemented by the main virtuous listings of solicitousness-submissiveness-desire-worry. Furthermore, the accessory alter ego states of admiration-concern-apprehension-adherence) similarly reciprocate the respective main listings of terms (approval-leniency-aspiration-compliance). This reciprocal interplay of both the main and accessory themes collectively permits a convincing simulation of empathic language in general, whereby the objective/subjective polarities are reversed through an inversion of the interplay of “you” and “I” roles. This key dual-directed dynamic for affective language provides crucial inroads towards an empathic model of human cooperation on an international scale of influence, promising fresh new insights into maintaining global peace and harmony. Indeed, the current book release represents a major expansion in terms of content on previous publications by the author, more than doubling the number of unique individual terms to a grand-total of 1,040 individual themes. The major overall focus, however, remains the promotion of a virtuous lifestyle through a more intimate examination of the character values (and affiliated ethical categories), with applications fittingly extending to a global sphere of influence. Far from remaining a purely academic exercise, this all-inclusive system addresses many issues of crucial import to modern culture. For instance, the realms of criminality and hypercriminality are examined in Part IV with considerable applications to political corruption and global international terrorism. This comprehensive examination of this intriguing set of categories offers timely insights into the numerous conflicts facing modern culture today, as well as considerable inroads into information technology: most notably, a patented simulation (#6,587,846) for ethical artificial intelligence (now expired and in public domain). Here, the formal dynamics of the three-digit coding system prove amenable to programming directly into a computer format, providing an intriguing new platform for ethical computer safeguards. Perhaps the greatest potential for this breakthrough ethical coding system resides in its all-inclusive nature, accounting for virtually every major class of ethically-charged language presumed to exist. Indeed, based upon a limited number of elementary assumptions; namely, the principles of instrumental conditioning and the concept of the metaperspective, the ascending hierarchy of stepwise transformations ultimately accounts for the entire 1,040-part complement of individual terms. The Schematic Definitions The comprehensive organization of the ethical hierarchy, although intriguing in an intuitive sense, nevertheless calls for a more convincing degree of precision than has so far been demonstrated. The systematic organization of the ethicalhierarchy allows the construction of what are termed the schematic definitions. This crucial innovation spells out (in longhand) the precise location of each virtue or value within the linguistic matrix, while preserving the correct status of respective authority and follower roles. Each definition is formally constructed along the lines of a two-stage sequential format; namely, (A) the formal recognition of the preliminary power maneuver, and (B) the current countermaneuver now being employed, and hence, labeled. Take, for example, the representative schematic definition of justice reproduced below: Previously, I (as your group authority) have honorably acted submissively towards you: countering your (as PF) lenient treatment of me. But now, you, (as group representative) will leniently act in a just fashion towards me: overruling my (as GA) honorable treatment of you. According to this specific example, the honorable sense of submissiveness expressed by the group authority represents the preliminary power maneuver, countered by the leniently-just treatment of the group representative. According to this basic format, the preliminary power perspective represents the one-down power maneuver, while the immediate power perspective is designated as the one-up variety. Power leverage is accordingly achieved by rising to the one-up power status; namely, ascending to the next higher metaperspectival level. This comprehensive hierarchy of schematic definitions is essentially viewed as a motivational style of calculus replete with the transformational rules governing how each level meshes with those above or below it. In keeping with the principles of a numerical calculus, the integral is viewed as a “one-up” power maneuver, whereas the differential is seen as the “one-down” variety. The instinctual terminology of operant conditioning is seen to dominate at the initial levels, replaced in due fashion by the virtues, values, and ideals of the higher levels. At each succeeding level, a new term (underlined) is introduced (representing the power maneuver currently under consideration). Beginning with the group authority level, the initial terms begin to drop out of the definitions, necessarily freeing up space for the current terms under consideration; (whereby maintaining a stable buffer of terms within the definitions). The respective authority and follower roles remain fixed throughout the entire span of the power hierarchy, systematically abbreviated approximately half of the time for sake of brevity in non-critical (redundant) positions. Accordingly, PA stands for personal authority, PF equals personal follower, GA stands for group authority, etc. Three of the atypical abbreviations are GR (group representative), SD (spiritual disciple), and RH (representative member of humanity). A complete multi-table listing of schematic definitions is posted at: Main Definitions --- A Complete Listing of Major Schematic Definitions These tables are partially borrowed from the two related patents for ethical artificial intelligence that rely upon the systematic programming of this schematic format as the foundation for ethical AI
. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF SITE WEBLINKS A more comprehensive overview of the companion explanatory web-links is provided below, _______________________________ Contact Info --- Contact the Author Table of Contents --- A Complete Listing of the 38 Individual Chapters Spanning 440 Pages Order Info --- Internet and Publisher-Direct Order Options Coding System --- Link to Book-Release: A Diagnostic Classification of the Emotions 1st Patent --- Link to First Patent for Ethical AI - #6,587,846 2nd Patent --- Link to Second Patent for Ethical AI - #7,236,963 Main Definitions --- A Complete Listing of Major Schematic Definitions Character Values --- Link to Book-Release: Character Values: Promoting a Virtuous Lifestyle DSM Apps. --- Link to Book-Release: Communication Breakdown: Decoding the Riddle of Mental illness World Peace ----- Applications to World Peace Brain Apps. ... Applications to Neuroscience and Brain Mapping ________________________________________ Site content c. 2022 by John LaMuth ________________________________________
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THE SCHEMATIC by The key insights to this newly proposed planetary system of ethics arises as a direct outcome of the fledgling science of Communication Theory, borrowing the crucial concept of the metaperspective. It is defined as a higher-order perspective on the viewpoint held by another: schematically defined as “this is how I see you-seeing me.” The higher-order groupings of virtues/values accumulate as subsets within this hierarchy of metaperspectives, each more abstract grouping building upon that which it supersedes. Take, for example, the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude), the theological virtues (faith-hope-charity-decency), and the classical Greek values (beauty-truth-goodness-wisdom). Each of these traditional groupings is further subdivided into four subordinate terms permitting precise point-for-point stacking within the hierarchy of metaperspectives. Additional listings of ethical terms can further be added to the mix: namely, the civil liberties (providence-liberty-civility-austerity), the humanistic values (peace-love-tranquility-equality), and the mystical values (ecstasy-bliss-joy-harmony). When taken in concert, the complete ten-level hierarchy of virtuous terms emerges in full detail, as partially reproduced in the compact table immediately below:
Solicitude - Approval Submissiveness - Leniency
Desire - Aspiration
Worry - Compliance
THE VICES OF DEFECT
Although a preferential emphasis on the virtues is certainly understandable, this virtuous mode can scarcely be considered solely in a vacuum. The truest applications for such a general ethical system derive precisely from a moral contrast with the related realm of the vices (where virtue and vice exist in concert with one another). Consequently, for every virtue there necessarily exists a corresponding antonym (or vice): namely, love vs. hate, peace vs. war, etc. The corresponding vices of defect represent the chief affective opposites of the respective virtuous counterparts, wherein providing an even sense of symmetry across the unified power hierarchy. The ten predicted categories for the vices of defect are arrayed in ten-level hierarchy similar to the pattern previously established for the virtuous mode.
Laziness - Treachery
Negligence - Vindictiveness
Apathy - Spite
Indifference - Malice
THE VICES OF EXCESS
The vices of defect, in turn, scarcely claim to be all-inclusive by any standard. Indeed, only half of the Seven Deadly Sins are formally accounted for in terms of the realm of defect. Here, pride, envy, and covetousness defy incorporation into the established realm of defect. This anomaly, in turn, is explained through aid of an additional class of the vices, known since ancient times as the vices of excess. In particular, Aristotle first described this dual system for the vice. The vices of defect (initially described) formally complement the respective vices of excess: defined as that range of extremes with respect to the virtues. Accordingly, Aristotle viewed the virtuous mode as a system of mean values (or norms) interposed between the vices of defect and vices of excess.
For instance, Aristotle cites the example of the virtue of courage. It represents the mean value interposed between the respective vice of defect (cowardice) and its excessive counterpart in foolhardiness. Virtue, accordingly, represents the middle-ground between defect and excess: wherein favoring moderation insofar as choosing a balance between this dual range of extremes. Indeed, it ultimately proves feasible to devise a parallel ten-level hierarchy for the realm of the vices of excess, mirroring point-for-point that previously established for the virtuous mode: although now extending to vanity, jealousy, shame, etc.
Pride - Flattery
Shame - Criticism
Envy - Impudence
Disdain - Insolence
Indolence - Mutiny Dereliction - Reprisal
Languor - Grudging
Callousness - Malignity
In comparison to the more routine class of the vices of defect, the realm of hyperviolence offers a much more extreme profile consistent with its defined role within the motivational continuum.
THE MASTER SCHEMATIC FORMAT
LINKING VIRTUE AND VICE
In summary, through the formal additional of the realm of hyperviolence, a fully balanced symmetry finally becomes conceptually complete. Here, the four basic ethical categories: e.g., the virtues, vices of defect, vices of excess, and hyperviolence collectively account for the complete cross-section of emotionally charged language in general; as formally depicted in the master diagram immediately below:
+ + VICES OF EXCESS
+ MAJOR VIRTUES
______________________
O ...... NEUTRALITY STATUS __________________
– VICES OF DEFECT
– – HYPERVIOLENCE
This schematic diagram is organized around the novel concept of “neutrality status,” representing a neutral point of entry within the system (a default status from which all new relationships are formed). This neutral status is respectively defined as that benign sense of neglect we express towards strangers on the street: contacts that pose no meaningful sense of relationship, yet do not present any impending sense of harm.
Every new relationship (by definition) stems primarily from this zone of neutrality status, a potentiality that extends to the realm of the virtues, or alternately into the domain of defect. This ethical divergence is schematically depicted as the dual arrangement of terms immediately flanking the zone of neutrality. This pair of conflicting options represents an ethical “fork in the road,” representing the basic core nucleus for the system. Most relationships are resolved through recourse to one option or the other (the basic thoroughfare for the system).
This dual interpretation can scarcely claim to be the total picture, for the parallel realm of excess lurks along the fringe boundaries of the core nucleus. For the virtuous realm, this corresponds to the related realm of the vices of excess. Furthermore, in terms of the vices of defect, this alternately targets the newly proposed realm of hyperviolence. These two extreme categories represent the figurative “fast lanes” of the relationship superhighway; namely, fringe areas exaggerated to the point of crossing over into the realm of excess. Fortunately, such forays into excess are typically somewhat limited. The enduring sense of stability within the social dynamic serves to lessen the unpredictable effects of such drastic mood swings.
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