#Vocabulary
Science-first
Science-first is an approach to claims anchored entirely in the material world.
Stoic Lens
A Personal Morality tool for choosing and acting through wisdom, courage, justice, temperance, and self-command.
Existential Lens
A Personal Morality tool for testing whether a choice honestly reflects the person the moral agent is trying to become.
Group Ethics
Group ethics supplies the given guidance surrounding a decision.
Personal Morality
The ethical responsibility and specific judgment used by a moral agent to choose what to do.
Flourishing for All
The TST goal of supporting lasting well-being for individuals, groups, societies, and nature.
TST Ethical Roadmap
Group ethics guides. Personal morality chooses. Act with good intent. Weigh the result. Adjust.
Dichotomy of Advice
A Personal Morality tool that sorts guidance into what should be restrained and what should be cultivated.
Good Intent
To act with good intent, you clarify group guidance. Weigh results. Apply personal morality. Forge a plan.
Philosophy of Fiction
Philosophy of Fiction studies how stories relate to reality. Its central dichotomy explores truth in fiction and alignment with reality in nonfiction.
Reflective Inquiry
Reflective Inquiry is the practice of clearing self-illusion.
Illusion
An illusion is a false perception of reality.
Ignorance Is Bliss
Ignorance Is Bliss is the balancing of knowing and suffering.
Karma
Karma is the idea that actions ripple. In TST, its common-ground meaning is cause and effect in moral life.
Five Thieves
The Five Thieves are inner forces that steal happiness. In TST, they belong under Personal Morality, specifically the Happiness branch.
Harm Principle
The Harm Principle says personal freedom should be protected unless a person harms others. In TST, it marks the boundary where Group Ethics begins.
Eternal Recurrence
Eternal Recurrence is Nietzsche’s test of life affirmation: could you honestly affirm this choice, pattern, or life if you had to live it again?
Two Tables of the Ten Commandments
The Two Tables of the Ten Commandments separates sacred conscience from civic law. In TST, it is a common floor for church-state separation and freedom ...
Authentic Self
The Authentic Self is the self you become when you live honestly.
Daoist Natural Alignment
Daoist Natural Alignment helps you flow with reality. It teaches you to live with nature, simplicity, authenticity, and less forcing.