A vocabulary of necessary distinctions

Words for a direction ordinary language cannot always preserve.

The glossary gives concise, public definitions of the central concepts used throughout Fidence Path.

How to use this glossary

Learn the distinction before carrying the word.

Technical terms exist where familiar vocabulary is too broad, unstable, or misleading. A person does not need to use every term to belong, but public explanations should preserve the distinctions the terms protect.

01

Value and moral knowledge

Zoenity

Happiness that does not require diminished awareness, agency, or consideration of others.

Agat

Impartial good in any extension: what constitutes, preserves, increases, distributes, secures, or makes possible zoenity.

Wholagat

The complete field of agat an individual could affect through present and developable knowledge, resources, and capabilities.

Greater Value Principle

The good of all, considered without arbitrary moral preference, is the greatest value and the final direction for a life.

02

Decision and transformation

Wholition

The total direction of one’s life toward agat, with willingness to abandon anything that ultimately conflicts with it.

Firmation

A firm but limited decision that preserves a final reservation against following agat; primarily a contrast with wholition.

Entelence

The continuing process of improving internal alignment and ethical effectiveness toward agat.

Enteliness

The attainable, dynamic condition in which wholition and active entelence remain present together.

Hamarten

Any morally deficient exercise of agency that diverts the path toward wholagat; synonymous with moral failure.

Hamarted

A person’s localized and temporary state in relation to hamarten—not an identity, essence, or permanent moral status.

03

Sustainment and flourishing

Fidence

Any faith, belief, confidence, trust, expectation, or comparable engagement that strengthens movement toward agat.

Makaria

The perception of one’s actual enteliness as genuine achievement or prosperity.

Makarious

A person, corresponding state, or developed life marked by stable actual enteliness, recognition of it as genuine achievement, and contextually increasing effectiveness.

Zoen

The full structural realization of zoenity: no happiness the being preserves depends on diminished awareness, agency, or consideration.

Karys

A person who consistently communicates accurate moral distinction despite meaningful resistance, without acquiring authority, office, or special status.

Karysty

The correctable proclamation, practice, and expressive function of communicating accurate moral distinction under meaningful resistance.

04

Expression and participation

Telway

A shared structure for turning an ethical direction into a way of life without requiring one metaphysical belief from everyone.

Doxastic engagement

Engagement in which a person accepts the relevant proposition as true and allows it to shape perception and action.

Non-doxastic engagement

Honest use of language, narrative, symbolism, or practice for its ethical and psychological effects without factual assent.

Reserved stance

Neither doxastic nor non-doxastic engagement; compatible with following the path while leaving some resources unused.

05

Individuals and association

Personal unit

Every participating individual as a genuine unit in their own right, whether or not they join any group.

Pioneer unit

A formation-stage unit maintaining a regular open point of encounter where no active community exists for its place or public.

Group unit

A recurring voluntary community with both stable participants and stable organizational management.

A map, not a prerequisite

You can begin in ordinary language and learn the vocabulary as its distinctions become necessary.