Series A — Moral-Philosophical Traditions

P1.1.A0Introduction to Moral-Philosophical Traditions2025-08-14 The frameworks that say what is true and good, and why it should guide a life. Each tradition is reconstructed from the inside, then tested for whether its moral logic can sustain autonomy, coherence, and non-coercion.
P1.1.A1Resilient Objectivism & Humanism2025-11-04 Humanism reminds us why ethics exists — to honor the human person — while Resilient Objectivism shows how ethics must function to keep that person free; goodness without structure cannot scale, and RO does not reject compassion, it gives it architecture.
P1.1.A2Resilient Objectivism & Stoicism2025-11-04 Stoicism and RO both answer how to live by reason when the world is unstable, but Stoicism counsels acceptance of a deterministic cosmos while RO demands the design of systems within an open, constructible one — RO reads Stoicism as the prototype of moral resilience that mastered self-command but never achieved command of systems.
P1.1.A3Resilient Objectivism & Existentialism2025-11-04 Existentialism and RO both begin from the individual's confrontation with an indifferent world and affirm freedom through choice, but existentialism grounds meaning in subjective creation while RO grounds it in objective reality — existentialism teaches the courage to face a silent world, RO teaches the discipline to make that world intelligible again.
P1.1.A4Resilient Objectivism & Utilitarianism2025-11-04 Utilitarianism and RO both ground morality in reason rather than revelation or tradition, but utilitarianism defines the good by outcome while RO defines it by structure — RO inherits utilitarianism's empirical spirit but restores the architecture it lacks, anchoring compassion to constraint and welfare to rights.
P1.1.A5Resilient Objectivism & Kantian Deontology2025-11-04 Kant and RO both build morality from reason and reject mysticism or whim, but Kant roots moral law in universality of form while RO roots it in fidelity to life — Kant built the scaffolding of moral law, and RO reinforces it with reality, since a moral law that cannot bear reality's weight is not law at all.
P1.1.A6Resilient Objectivism & Aristotelian Virtue Ethics2025-11-04 Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and RO both begin from life as telos and treat ethics as a craft of learned stability, but Aristotle grounds order in teleological form while RO grounds it in identity and causality — RO completes what Aristotle began, writing his grammar of virtue in feedback-aware form.
P1.1.A7Resilient Objectivism & Natural Law2025-11-03 Natural Law and RO both affirm that reality possesses an objective moral structure discoverable by reason and reject relativism, nihilism, and authoritarian decree, but Natural Law grounds that order in teleology — a cosmos designed for divine purpose — while RO grounds it in identity alone; RO is natural law without a lawgiver.
P1.1.A8The Religious Moral Traditions2025-11-04 The Religious Moral Traditions and RO both claim morality is real and reject relativism, but they diverge on source and sanction — revelation from a transcendent creator versus reality itself as discerned by reason; RO stands downstream of every temple, inheriting religion's moral architecture while emancipating its method. Planned umbrella for the A8A–M subseries — the article itself treats RMT in aggregate and does not yet reference the individual traditions; the subseries is not yet drafted.
P1.1.A9Resilient Objectivism & Postmodern Constructivism2025-11-05 RO and Postmodern Constructivism occupy opposite poles of moral architecture — RO asserts reality is primary and cognition's task is to align with it, while constructivism asserts meaning is primary and reality becomes whatever minds or cultures agree to perceive; where constructivism says "truth is made," RO answers "truth is discovered."
P1.1.A10Resilient Objectivism & Epicureanismnot yet published Epicurus's philosophy of ataraxia through minimized desire and materialist metaphysics parallels Stoicism as the other great Hellenistic answer to instability, but where Stoicism counsels alignment with a rational cosmic order, Epicureanism denies any such order exists and grounds tranquility in atomistic materialism and calculated pleasure — testing whether reason without a rational cosmos can still ground stable ethics.
P1.1.A11Resilient Objectivism & Pragmatismnot yet published American Pragmatism (Peirce, James, Dewey) holds that truth is what works — belief validated by practical consequence rather than correspondence to fixed reality — testing whether RO's insistence on truth as correspondence can accommodate Pragmatism's genuine insight about testing beliefs against consequence without collapsing into instrumentalism's own relativism.