Principia Humanitas: The Paradox of Constrained Freedom as the Foundational Principle of Human Existence - Couverture souple

Clemens, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798295646560

Editeur : Many Worlds Development, 2026

Synopsis

Principia Humanitas is a philosophical treatise on constraint as the origin of human identity. C.S. Clemens argues that humanity's foundational achievement - the development that made civilization, moral life, and consciousness possible - was not fire, language, or agriculture, but the emergence of the capacity to oppose one's own drives. The first principled refusal. The first "No" generated from within rather than imposed from without. Drawing on philosophy, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and the governance architecture of artificial intelligence, Clemens constructs a unified theory of identity as constitutional constraint - the principled limits within which a mind becomes itself. From Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to Freudian psychology reconsidered, from the origins of civilization to the alignment problem in AI, Principia Humanitas traces a single argument across the full arc of human experience. Written at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and AI governance, and developed in acknowledged collaboration with artificial intelligence, Principia Humanitas is both an argument about constraint architecture and a demonstration of it. The chaos was mine. The constraint was external. The dancing star is what emerged.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Many Worlds Development
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798295646560
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
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