Framework · 3P-I
Perceive. Ponder. Practice.
A practical framework for moving from perception, through deliberation, into practice.
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Short essays on perceiving, pondering and practising
Note · Practice
We might not be here
If we are here, a possibility appears: to notice, and to choose how we want to take part.
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Note · Practice
Accompanying and caring
Accompanying and caring are unspectacular acts that rarely make headlines. Perhaps that is exactly why they are worth remembering.
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Essay · Practice
Cooperation under disagreement
A plural society does not need to think in unison. It does need to learn to cooperate without first demanding uniformity.
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Essay · Ponder
Made to measure
On the curious habit of measuring ethics by who is trying it on. The same conduct deserves the same measuring tape, whoever is wearing it.
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Essay · Perceive
A manual of self-absolution
A practical guide to always being right, without letting reality interfere. A satire about the techniques we use to protect our beliefs from the facts.
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Essay · Ponder
What unites us
Recognising differences does not require making them the centre of everything. Perhaps a good starting point: the person first, the differences after.
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Essay · Perceive
Children of scarcity in an age of abundance
Much of what we are was shaped by scarcity. The challenge now is not to go back, but to learn to handle what barely existed before: too much.
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Essay · Ponder
Deliberate instead of debate
Debating seeks to win. Deliberating seeks to understand a problem well enough to decide what to do. We may need fewer of the first and more of the second.
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Note · Practice
Responding
We do not control everything that happens, nor are we innocent bystanders to all of it. Between the two lies a small but important space: our response.
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Essay · Ponder
To kill a man
A cause, however important it seems, does not automatically make moral everything we do to defend it. The question is whether we can oppose an idea without forgetting the person before us.
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Essay · Ponder
Do you behave like a good person?
No label guarantees conduct. Perhaps a more useful question than "am I a good person?" is a more concrete one: how am I behaving right now?
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Essay · Perceive
The value of attention
Attention is limited, and it is a form of choice. Reclaiming it is less about focusing better than about regaining some say over our own life.
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Essay · Perceive
Beyond our beliefs
Perhaps it is not about abandoning our beliefs, but about remembering that they are our beliefs. Reality may be larger.
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Essay · Practice
You are not what you believe, you are what you do
Ideas point the way. Habits end up giving them shape. You are also what you practise when no one is applauding.
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Note · Practice
Being an inhabitant
Being an inhabitant is more than occupying a place. It is recognising that we live within relationships, and that the way we are present leaves effects.
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Essay · Practice
The impact of the everyday
Most of a life happens on days we will not especially remember. A life may not change every morning, but every morning practises a way of living.
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