The Exposed Cogito and the Birth of Ethics

This paper offers a first principles derivation of Resolution Ethics from the Cogito. It argues that the Cogito gives the first certainty from within experience, but not the final wall of reality. Once the I is understood as exposed rather than sealed, a minimal structure becomes visible: I and not-I, boundary, exposure, valence, resolution, authorship, and shared dependence. From that structure, the paper derives three minimum requirements of ethics: preserve authorship, track exposure truthfully, and honour shared dependence. The result is a Euclidean core of Resolution Theory: ethics is not imported from outside, but begins to unfold from exposed authorship itself.