THE UNITY PROJECT, Part I.
     by Nathan Coppedge                                                              page
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Part I.  Effective-Meaning: Objective-Time
�1.b. Iteration 6                                             page 1

Preface

Chart

Summary

Part 1a.
Iteration 1
Iteration 2
Iteration 3
Iteration 4

Part 1b.
Iteration 5
Iteration 6

PART II.
(incomplete)

PART III.
(outline)

PART IV.
(outline)

NOTES
Now we can combine the two halves of 1b to arrive at a compromise: the absolute Subjective that is one degree more Objective. We can do this by combining the corresponding numbers for the qualities of the Objective-Subjective and the Absolute Subjective worlds. This gives us four options: The Ethical-Intellectual, the Ethical-Emotional, the Game-Intellectual, and the Game-Emotional. Part a. represents the ideal state, while part b. presents its dilemma.

The Ethical-Intellectual World

1. a. Purpose is a matter of ethics, of right-action, b. but truth is relative.
2. a. One may change the world by an act of will, b. but language is meaningless
3. a. Meaninglessness is the only thing that kills the soul b. but the self is also meaningless.
4. a. Insofar as there is fate, it applies to all beings in the Effective World. b. but nothing has meaning relative to meaninglessness, and none of the little deaths of meaning amount to anything except a suggestion of the meaningless quality of the whole.

We can call the Ethical-Intellectual world the world of Language. It has four qualities: 1. It is a matter of choosing meanings appropriate to ones code of ethics 2. Language must have meaning and power 3. The writer must have a sense of personal meaning 4. The writer must create an Effective (2nd) World in his writing. To do so, he must possess a mutable (4th) world within his own subjective (1st) world. (To find rules about Ethics or the Intellect he must be a flexible thinker, recreating the world of experience in terms of the world of symbols or imagination).

We can derive that (combining 3 and 4) the writer may find personal meaning by creating a mutable world within himself. There is the suggestion that insofar as the writer must be a unity to use language, so what he writes must take a unified form, so that it is not meaningless. As soon as the writer has found a unity, he has found something to stand on, something that gives him self-worth.

And, language�s meaning and power may be derived from the relationship between the writer�s internal code of ethics or sense of meaning, and the public�s external code of ethics or sense of meaning. In this way the objective may not be only God, it may be the public, or even specific individuals. So relativity is really the point of stress in the relationship between the world of meaningful Language and it�s Objective-World.

Based on these statements we can make a new chart representing the Ethical-Intellectual world of Language (remember that we are defining language very loosely here):

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