Who are you? What is it to be human? What is the meaning of the Earth? Who are you in the Earth's system?
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Aurora, New York, 1973
Aurora, NY, 1974
Ithaca, NY, 1977
Alongside "power-from," there is also "power-with." This decades-old paper delineates how relating is part of being human and proposes an existential understanding of communication as a basic orientation. Acceptance is part of this too:
(95') We All Stand.pdfOn an earthly sense of humanity, see
and, on a personal relation to planetary space and time see,
Solar Calendar, and Other Ways of Marking Time,
followed by a reprise of the analogical implication in the earthly sense of humanity:
(22') Everything Is Backwards Now.pdfOn wonder in Earth system responsibility and personal relating, see also:
Autonomous Conceptions of our Planetary Situation
and
Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene, where it first arose as such
and
envirophil_2022_0019_0002_con_toc.pdfA Planetary Imagination_ Responses to Chakrabarty_s Socio-Natura.pdfThe idea about power coming from the planet through the living comes from a paper on acceptance:
(23) Acceptance Governance.pdf(2024) Nie możemy sobie pozwolić na niemyślenie. Filozofia a nasze planetarne środowisko. Rozmowa z prof. Jeremim Bendik-Keymerem.pdf(23) ENG_DZ_wywiad_Jeremy.pdf00--EE 46-4 TOC.pdfTrail Notes no. 3.pdfA workshop constucting relations
7. (2025) The Restoration of Language and the Possibility of Peace _ Blog of the APA.pdfThere are other ways relationships are a guide to justness, too:
Approaching the Biosemioticians.pdfBuild a cathedral, 2025
The idea is to show, time and again, how justness as a quality of character depends on wonder as its core, extent, and ground. I understand justice, unconventionally, as a process of working out relationships into freeness for all involved. Justice depends on power from the planet - the freedom of being that makes relating possible at all for the living. In this way, the book argues for an understanding of justness that focuses on generation, with wonder meeting it.
Shaker Heights, Ohio, summer 2026
PJWP excerpt.pdf(Complete draft to be posted when both the draft and doing so feel right)
What Do We Do When We Talk about “Evil”_.pdfHere is some wonder in action within tough relationships:
Smash the Machinery of Time_ Asylum Philosophy _ Blog of the APA.pdfWonder Striving Aliveness Character (Sofia).pdfKeynote for
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
XXII National Conference on Ethics
November 5th, 2026
Planetary Socialism_26_07_30_08_21_39.pdfWe should be looking for a new form of society that is truly democratic. How can other forms of life be part of our human democracy as something more than objects for our use, self-reflection, or pleasure?
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