A vocabulary of necessary distinctions

Words for a direction ordinary language cannot always preserve.

The glossary facilitates accurate expression. It does not create the philosophy, canonical truth, or the realities its terms identify.

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

Provisional canonical formulation

Zoenity

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

Canonical

Rational empathy

Deliberate perspective-taking that models another being’s experience on that being’s own terms.

Canonical

Agat

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

Canonical

Wholagat

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

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Greatest realizable zoenity

The ultimate ethical direction across all affected beings under the conditions and uncertainty that actually exist.

02

Decision and transformation

Canonical

Wholition

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

Canonical contrastive concept

Firmation

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

Canonical

Entelence

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

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Enteliness

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

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Hamarten

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

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Repentance

Sincere recognition of hamarten and reorientation toward agat, including correction of continuing consequences where possible.

03

Sustainment and flourishing

Canonical

Fidence

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

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Makaria

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

Canonical

Makarious

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

Canonical lexical family

To makary

To prosper in the specifically defined makarious sense.

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Zoen

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

04

Expression and participation

Canonical

Doxastic engagement

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

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Non-doxastic engagement

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

Canonical

Reserved stance

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

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Karyze

Accurately communicate a real distinction between agat and hamarten despite meaningful resistance or pressure.

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Karys

A person who consistently karyzes; the description grants no authority, office, or special status.

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Karysty

The role, practice, or expressive function of karyzing.

05

Individuals and association

Canonical institutional architecture

Personal unit

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

Canonical institutional category

Pioneer missionary unit

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

Canonical institutional architecture

Group unit

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

A map, not a prerequisite

You can enter through an ordinary question and learn the vocabulary as its distinctions become necessary.