Birth of a Philosophy.

There is a real word- we live in it. In this real world, there are non-entities, and there are entities. These entities are alive- and this life, this bios, requires some form of consumption and/or exploitation of other things both alive and not alive. All living things will die. All living things live within ecological systems that affect each other. Within the total environment that this occurs, there is no proof or disproof of intelligent life- but there is proof that revealed religion and myths are not true. Within this total environment, the biocosm, there are universal laws but no universal purpose, morality, or guidelines. There are many entities- and one in particular that matters to itself- the human race. Humanity lives within its own psychological ecology. Humanity does not look upon life from the perspective of the biocosm, but the biocosm is the ultimate reality- not the anthropocentric perspective held by all humans. The first step to understanding and interpreting reality is to understanding what we can prove, but also adapting to what works. We can rationalize where we don't have evidence or proof; but ultimately there is one universal that can be proven true within humans as well as all living entities- that there is a predisposition to life- and we do this by surviving and adaptation.

Life has a way of providing an education beyond anything provided in a classroom or the home. One can read Epicurus, Aquinas, Hume, Dewey, Foucault, and Rorty, creating the most beautiful and articulate philosophies- only to have them torn down. We can dream, fantasize, create and dazzle ourselves with the most delicious words and concepts. But life will teach us more than anything we will ever read

My life has given me much to philosophically consider. And life has given others much to philosophically consider. I don't try too much to compare my life to others beyond trying to understand the world, trying to understand the big questions, trying to figure out my own way through this life as long as I have it. But I do compare. We all do. And from my experience, and comparing it to others, it has led me to the birth of a philosophy: Adaptivism.

The origins of Adaptivism came on the end of a slow death to my ardent commitment to Christianity. After many years as a dedicated disciple I had backslidden to become a non-believer. And it was from this unraveling where I began to truly seek understanding of life and reality through philosophy.

Morality, or Ethics had and still remains the central pillar to my philosophical enquiries. The difference then and now is that I had believed that morality was rooted in a Universal mandate given by the Universal Authority but now, feel that it can be proven that not only does morality not come from a universal source, but does not exist at all outside of the development of human agreement.

Of course the greatest problem for anyone engaging or creating philosophy is that while reality does not start at on particular point, we have no other choice; we are bound by an entry point and then sequential structures of communication. Where does one start with philosophy? It starts wherever the philosopher decides otherwise it will be a nothing but a tautology. I consider Ethics to be the most important component of philosophy for one simple reason: we humans must interact with each other; we don't need to understand logic, epistemology or metaphysics to survive. We don't need aesthetics to live. We need structure between humans to avoid complete destruction of our race. Life flourishes without philosophy. Humans, being uniquely dependent on cooperation, cannot flourish without ethics. Ethics is therefore the only indispensable branch of philosophy.”