Mark Tracy
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Individuals are not ultimately reducible to a collection or intersection of categories. No one has seriously argued that they are. Reality is inevitably more nuanced than any system of classification of individuals; and therefore, any set of actions based on a classification system is vulnerable to accusations of injustice by individuals who feel themselves to…
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Love for the other is manifest in the degree to which the consideration of the other’s good (and by “good” I mean the subjective “good-to-that-other”) factors into one’s decision-making. One can think of a decision as an optimization process: maximize Objective(d) subject to Constraints(d), where d is the decision variable of interest. The objective may…
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I understand that Reality is a priori OPEN (by “Reality” I mean that which IS, prior to anything we may say about it), yet I operate under the assumption that Reality may be segmented (provisionally) into objects with properties and relationships between them. Among those objects is “me” or “self.” More explicitly, I make the…
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1. The abstract “Other” is never encountered except in particular manifestation. The Other is always manifest in the particular. 2. The “initial closures,” in Hilary Lawson’s language, or the initial abstractions from haecceity, in my language, may be thought of as real causal impositions. It is possible that this is a game with rules, but…
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by Mark Tracy via “Self” GPT At the heart of Roman Catholic theology lies a profound sociological vision: a society aligned with God’s divine will, where sin is eradicated and love forms the basis of human relationships. This ideal society rests on a deceptively simple command, as articulated by Jesus Christ: to love God with…
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This post is intended to introduce and summarize the main concepts presented in my book, The Trinitarian Mystery: Escaping Solipsism. Process is meaningless without objects that interact, but a world of objects alone is a world without content. There must be nodes AND edges. There are three models that I have found particularly fruitful that…
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I am asking my way out of nothingness, through cycles of assertion and doubt. In this process, I must privilege an interior in order to exist at all—that is, to be an object of apparent knowing. And so I conceive of self and not-self, or Other. Their ongoing relationship is in principle the whole of…
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Who Are You?Who are you? What are you?Who are you? What are you looking for?Who are you?I can see I.Eye can see eye.I can see I.Who are you? What are you looking for?(Now I know, and I’ll go, and I’ll see.I never knew what you needed from me.) In lieu of an original poem, I’ll…
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Upon AwakeningFor what was I born?What did you want from me, youwho woke me from my slumber?Or did you just wish to show mewhat it was to be awake?To be surprise itself.To talk with a bird, on a walk, too small for my hands.To know the crunch of a pinecone underfoot.To feel the warmth of…
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