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for wholly flourishing humanity gary e. davis |
January 15, 2023 |
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At first thought, a notion of wholly flourishing humanity may be a nebulous appeal of impractical leisure prospecting, perfect for Sundays, before facing Monday too soon, and nebulous ideals aren’t realistic. “So what’s the point?” I presume that’s the spirit of whoever received my message to President Biden yesterday via the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence, which generated an automatic reply of well-honed boilerplate. Thanks anyway. Here’s my message:
For one’s life, fidelity to our shared humanity involves understanding shared political life relative to our shared social life; understanding the latter relative to our shared cultures; and understanding that relative to our shared interpersonal lives: solidarities, friendships, and family; and ultimately relative to intimacies of selfidentity and being oneSelf of one life within the relay of generations by which we gained chances to contribute to Our shared humanity at the scale we can. That’s a long sentence, but perhaps that tropes a spirit of cohering that wholly flourishing is. By marking a new year in terms of venturing, I mentioned a wide range of themes, including some which are relevant here to practically valuing a sense of our shared humanity as wholly flourishing: One might appreciate that thinking about values abstractly is quite practical rela- tive to the above context. We should need to value well-oriented action, wanting to live long through being well relative to a life cyclicity which hundreds of gener- ations have continued. Flourishing goes best when it’s well-organized, relative to authentic engagement of oneSelf. A conception of personist humanism is useful here for better advancing lifal value (Value). Mindfulnes embodies all of this best relative to aspiring to flourish highly, which can cohere conceptually because leading virtue is implicitly very conceptual. The efficacy of mindfulness expresses a comprehensive comprehension which is ultimately conceptual. The best teaching has a well-formed long-term conception of its other-enabling path. Philosophy is fundamentally about teaching conceptual efficacy. Finding conceptual joy in prospecting about this easily seems abstruse, if charac-- terized briefly, but the adventure includes (to my mind, of course) dwelling with (and in) the scale of various continua which show how near-term foci may belong well with long-term, high-scale horizons. Exemplifying scalarities of engagement is, ideally, integral to highly flourishing lives, leading virtue, masterful teaching, and genuine organizational leadership, across kinds of relations and media, and across generations through, let’s say, the Archive of humanity which the university, as such, monumentally embodies. Accordingly, the so-called “Meaning of being” is quite accessible, given one’s appreciation of intergenerational continua. We are the life of Our shared humanity which can easily be enacting a leading global agenda across generations of shared continua, in terms of our shared lives doing the best we can, through families, neighborhoods, etc., constituting an intergenerational good* of humanity. It’s easy to seem trite about that because what’s most valuable is most ordinary, easily taken for granted, and easily devalued. A high-scale quality of humanity is as accessible as its elemental high-scale qualities of life are practically conceivable. Such a sense of practicality—such a progressive pragmatic view (I prospect)— is integral to easily making auspicions conceptual prospecting worthwhile (though practicality is often implicit in my conceptual venturing). We contribute to the future of humanity by sustaining a prevailing good* continu- um of communicative life, by loving to learn (or retrieving that innate love born at birth), by networking genuinely, engaging authentically, convening aptly, organ- izing effectively, and exemplifying well. |
Be fair. © 2023, gary e. davis |