Folklaw - Timeless Patterns for a Modern World - Couverture souple

Palmer, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798998701306

Editeur : Civic Loop, 2026

Synopsis

Folklaw gathers the wisdom of communities across time and place, and translates it into living patterns that can be practiced today.

In modern governance, the feedback loops between citizens and their institutions have collapsed. Power flows upward, but information and care seldom return. Systems theory teaches that vitality depends on circulation-on adaptive feedback that keeps a living organism in balance. Folklaw restores this principle to civic life. Each essay can be adapted into a local resolution, offering councils, neighborhoods, and community groups a means to bring ethical reflection and ecological sanity back into the legal process itself.

Each pattern begins with a clear moral premise and flows toward practical legislation, reconnecting governance to the people it serves. Daoist in tone, Folklaw recognizes that true law arises not from control but from balance. When law reflects the living needs of people and ecosystems, it requires little enforcement and invites participation. A law understood and trusted is more powerful than one merely obeyed.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Civic Loop
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798998701306
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 292
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