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Anankelogical Principles
A-Foundational - B-Basic - C-General - D-Pain - E-Conflict - F-Authority - G-Law - H-Love
Anankelogy sets itself apart with a series of inspiring principles
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Foundational Principles lay the basis for anankelogy as a unique science. AKA the need fact triad.
Basic Principles ground aspects of your experience with needs in the science of anankelogy.
General Principles add wisdom to experiencing needs anchored in the science of anankelogy.
Pain Principles start applying anankelogy to be more "need-responsive" in our lives.
Conflict Principles offer some insight for negotiating disputes you have with others.
Authority Principles apply anankelogy to the legitimacy of those in positions of influential power.
Law Principles apply anankelogy to the point of having laws and unwritten norms.
Love Principles cap these need-focused concepts with mutual respect for each other's needs.
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Description
Opens with what anankelogy calls an engaging query. Which starts with a question to choose one of two options. The first option is a widely accepted assumption. The alternative introduces the application of this anankelogical principle.
Anankelogy
Establishes the centrality of objectively existing needs this principle addresses.
Need-response
Narrows to how the principle can be addressed by this new profession of need-response.
Reactive Problem
Identifies the painful problem underserved without this principle.
Responsive Solution
Spells out how this principle can help solve this painful problem.
Responding to your needs
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Three Foundational Anankelogical Principles
Anankelogy, as a new social science for to scientifically understand our needs, offers these revolutionary insights. Much as Émile Durkheim demonstrated "social facts" for establishing the social science of sociology, Steph Turner grounds anankelogy in this need fact triad for social sciency inquiry.
Need Fact Triad
Unresolved needs objectively compromises wellness (i.e., functionality), which objectively provokes pain.
Your need and my need to function exist as objective facts, apart from how we subjectively experience our needs. Your natural requirement to draw in something or to remove something, in order to function, exists independent of human subjective experience. You can only experience your needs subjectively after the objective phenomenon of your reduced functionality. Your required functionality occurs first, and then your emotional response to it. These shape your beliefs.
Once you draw in or remove what your life requires to properly function, your improved functionality exists as an objective fact independent of human subjective experience. If you draw in or remove something in a way that only partially helps you objectively function, the marginal difference in your functionality also exists independent of human subjective experience. Your subjective pain (like depression or anxiety) warns you of your objectively reduced capacity to adequately function. Let's consider the implications.
Each natural need that exists as a natural fact serves your capacity to function, also as an objective fact. You do not choose to require the capacity to adequately function, or be well.
You may choose how to stay well, to sustain or improve your level of functioning. But what exists as essential to your capacity to function exists independent of your subjective awareness.
Almost everything we learn about emotions points to how we subjectively experience them. Prior to being evoked, each emotion points to a predictable situation or need that emotion conveys.
Anger, for example, predictably follows something genuinely unacceptable, and never produces joy instead. The objective "what" of each emotion remains distinct from its subjective "how".
Welcome to a new social science
These principles flow from understanding needs as objective fact. Which makes these features about our needs predictable.
How? Check this article about strong correlations between observable variables. Understand your own needs like never before.
Basic Principles
Resolving needs improves wellness.
Emotions personally convey needs.
Needs get queued and then evoked.
Resolving needs improves wellness.
Conflict Principles
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We cannot solve our specific problems from the level of generalizing that created them.
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Opposing what others need does not extinguish moral conflict, but enflames it.
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A rush to debate usually skips the details that really matter in life.
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There is less reason to debate when you can vulnerably relate.
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Violence is weakness turned outward. Resilience is strength turned inward.
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When violence seems the only answer, quickly rethink the question.
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The more you offer to ease their needs, the more they seek to ease their pain.
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Mutual respect resolves more needs than mutual defensiveness.
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Self-righteousness is a weak savior. Arrogance is no savior at all.
Love Principles
