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Liberty: The Definitive Moral Truth

Simerl, Orion · 2021
PhilArchive · Papers · 2021
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This book presents a systematic account of objective morality grounded in the structure of conscious experience. It argues that consciousness begins with awareness and orientation toward what is perceived, giving rise to desire and purposive action. Because conscious agents necessarily pursue preferred states within a shared environment, moral principles must be derived from the structural conditions that allow multiple agents to pursue their ends simultaneously. The book argues that liberty, understood as the absence of imposed interference among agents, provides the invariant basis of objective moral truth. From this foundation, the work develops a model of ideal existence defined by universal opportunity for the exercise of desire within conditions of non-imposition. The theory provides a unified account of moral obligation, social cooperation, and institutional design while offering a critique of alternative moral frameworks grounded in authority, tradition, or subjective preference. The book also examines religious and secular explanations of existence, arguing that systems grounded in ultimate authority or finite annihilation fail to provide coherent accounts of moral reality and ideal existence. By deriving morality from the universal features of conscious experience rather than from cultural norms or theological premises, the book proposes a comprehensive framework intended to explain the structure of moral reasoning and the conditions under which rational agents can coexist without domination.
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