I want to tell you about autonomoktisis . We could also call it the autonomy approach . Simply put: People, societies, and governments should seek to convert heteronomy into autonomy. Let’s explore what that means. What follows is a prolegomenon, intended to chart a direction, not conclude a journey. Autonomoktisis = autos (self) + nomos (law) + ktisis (to create/bring into being) The central journey of moral life is from heteronomy to autonomy. Heteronomy is the state of b
[This is Part 8 of a series of posts which serialize my book, A Metarevolutionary Manifesto . Read Part 7 here .] It is inescapable, then, that discussion of the meaning crisis within our metacrisis would lead to Value itself and the possibility of perfection. The Good is the first principle of everything; its displacement from our attention, its subversion into “idolatry” (as in nihilistic ontologies which place Power prior to Value, and thus flatten Value into Power’s rela