motivation: reason to uphold and respect these rights direct motivation / Viz. reason to respect these rights independent of reason to uphold and establish. : see notebook:2021-10-30 - I am moved to respect these rights. a) A combination of child-like wonder and gratitude moves me to respect them. : private - When I look up to the sky on clear nights and see myself placed in a universe that — for all I can tell — was designed to protect our rational nature, I feel as though I were a child once again in a world of magic and mystery. - I feel at home, secure in a place I belong. !! Why does the argument weaken below? | I am removing the material and formal grounds and replacing them with gift worthiness again - Yes, I may have child-like wonder, but this is a distant second to the security I feel just in looking up there. - My motivation is in a sense negative here, a spur to action because it hinges on *not finding* that same security when I turn back to society. + So refocus on the security feeling and carry the argument (this part of it) on its realization in society. + Move the whole of this (part of the) argument into the reason-based argument further below, or otherwise effectively place it in that context. | abstract the whole, focusing on what is most compelling ∵ Already the whole argument has been given in these files, and here I am only underlining it with a compelling summary. + State tersely the most compelling argument in its most compelling form, which might be as follows. / I may need to work at more than one before deciding which is most compelling. - Ideally this is prefaced by a single sentence or word, then expanded (Homer like) in one or more lengthier reiterations. + Begin as above, amended as above to focus on security. + Say (summarizing as above) I am moved to replicate that sense of security in society. / To achieve the feeling *always*, not just on looking up. + Conclude that I am moved to respect these rights. + Flesh out by adding whatever else feels compelling from these notes, yet without weakening the force of the main summary, either by: | putting it elsewhere in the ethic, / Maybe the less said here, the better. | appending it, physically outside of the main summary, even if logically enclosed by it | injecting it, the main summary formed by bullets : see e.g. http://reluk.ca/project/way/diaspora/premise.brec - This puts me in mind of the care I got as a child, and again growing up in a caring society. - these together … situate me in space and time … with meaning … and purpose … because … not in my nature to receive care and be unmoved to give in return … - … nor is it in anyone’s … - … this … reciprocity … is part of … our|human nature … of how we exist … - My respect for these rights is one instance of that, one way to sustain that existence, affirm my part in it, and give back. / It only adds to my sense of wonder that, on reflection, I find that duty and reason also move me to respect these rights. ?+ Might this be moved above to usher the switch from emotional introspection to logical reflection, as switching unannounced may be part of what weakens the argument there. b) Duty moves me to respect them. c) Reason moves me to respect them. + Consider for the above the more informative summary of notebook 2021-10-30a. ∵ Nature moves me to carry on toward an undisclosed end whose worth is unknown to me. ∵ Reason moves me to carry on toward an undisclosed end whose worth is unknown to me, an end I cannot dismiss or discount except on pain of unreason. + Quote Dickinson letter for comparison. : see notebook:2021-11-1 : see also notebook:2021-10-29b / I cannot simply conclude that the rational nature which moves me is itself the end to *which* it moves me, for I have no reason to appraise it worthy in its own right. ∵ These rights protect my access to the conditions {of so carrying on} … ∵ These rights apply to me only on condition I respect them as they apply to others. ∵ Others are necessary to my end … + Argue that I’ve reason therefore to respect these rights as they apply to others. d) A sense of dignity in seeking moral certainty moves me. - The sense of dignity conferred just by seeking moral certainty raises the possibility that we might reach a consensus on this search being a thing of value in its own right (X), a consensus that satisfies W without also satisfying M. : re `sense of dignity` see notebook:2021-10-29b - What one values would then be a thing one could never lose, except by abandoning it oneself. - Then I could accept Kant’s conclusion in the *Critique of practical reason*, no longer thinking he rated the ‘first’ and ‘second’ there in the wrong order. + Cross-refer with the aim of defying extinction. : privately re `defying extinction` see ~/code/WP3/way/diaspora/._/defiance_of_fatalism.brec : re `defying extinction` see `^^method: ${same}$`i @ http://reluk.ca/project/way/diaspora/working_notes.brec - Meanwhile the thought of having attained M does *not* confer that sense of dignity. - Nor does the parallel search for W confer that sense of dignity. ? How might this mesh with these interesting thoughts, possibly in conjuction? : re `these interesting thoughts` see notebook:2021-10-29b \ : re `these interesting thoughts` see \ `^^∵ Reason moves me to an undisclosed end whose worth is unknown to me` @ \ ~/work/way/ethic/._/rights_boneyard.brec : complete with the Dickinson quote \\ lost referent - The seeing ‘all we hope’ of her letter might here equate to ‘having attained M’, as then one would *lose* the sense of dignity and so return to a deficit of reason, such that once again ‘there would be madness near’. : re `having attained M` see `the thought.+does \*not\* confer that sense of dignity` - This only on the premise that W is then unsatisfied in any other way, e.g. that the search for M is the only agreed thing of value at that time. / If nothing else could be of value in its own right, then all would be stabilized. Then M would be unattainable end, nevertheless necessary to aim for. + Bear in mind that Dickinson’s letter might detract, involving overanalysis. - Instead it might all be couched in (what seems) the thoughful phasing of 2021-10-29b. : see notebook:2021-10-29b - The earlier ground in motivation (carrying on as always) is an open ended one, rooted in the past through the present, whereas this motivating reason complements it neatly, being rooted in the present through the future. - Of course, we have no such consensus yet, nor any at all, and must continue seeking it. - The very idea flawed in some we have yet to discover. - Still it gives one a more tangible prospect to hold to. - It is hard not to jump directly to the assumption of this. ? What does this mean? ? What would *doing so* mean? | holding an unjustified belief | it means that a deficit of reason is hard to bear - One very much *wants* to satisfy W. !! It is hard to hold onto this sense of dignity. | because it is empty on reflection, a sense of dignity based on nothing !! Something in all of this troubles me, even scares me. | because the ethic is (necessarily) a formalism, empty of material satisfaction - What had troubled me, scared me, was that here I had hoped for more, then began to see that my hope was baseless (witness the other alarm points `!!`). / Want of reason is, after all, truly hard to bear. - Only one of the *grounds* is material, nothing yet that *unfolds* from it. + Remove this division to separate file. !! Does this warrant such prominent treatment, wholly hypothetical as it is? | Consider how my hopes for it might be satisfied instead either by an aside here, or by referring from here to an aside under `moral_uncertainty.brec`. - Instead it might all be couched in (what seems) the thoughful phasing of 2021-10-29b. : see \ | It is not hypothetical. \ - One gets an immediate sense of dignity from it, and consummation or completion. \ : re `consummation or completion` see e.g. \ `^^- The earlier ground in.+carrying on as always.+is.+open ended` \ - That it might one day satisfy W by way of C is only an aside. \\ !! Quite the contrary: it can be hard to hold onto this belief. \ : see ?+ What name and title? | `motivation.brec`, ‘Motivation: reason to uphold and respect these rights’ ?+ How repair the unclear reference? ?+ What form? | This direct approach coming after the foregoing indirect one, prefaced by the logic that, if one believes in the plausibility of {this}, then one has double the reason to respect these rights: they serve both to justify that belief through consensus (C of W), and then sustain the search for M, its worth now confirmed as absolute.