Basic Transcendental Principles

Principles of Space and Time

CCST1.0: Principle of temporal circumscription (time condition).

CCST2.0: Principle of spatial awareness (space condition).

CCST2.1: Principle of spatial orientation.

Principles of Universal Representation

CCUniRep1.0: Principle of naming the content (principle of formal identification of the content).

CCUniRep1.1: Principle of preparation and preparedness (everyone has studied, exercised and rested).

CCUniRep1.2: Principle of universal prior knowledge of the content (everyone knows what is to be shared and is, in some sense, in possession of its text).

CCUniRep1.3: Principle of indifferent expression (what is to be shared is transcendental and materially a priori).

CCUniRep2.0: Principle of the mystical/magical text (what is to be shared is wonderful).

CCUniRep2.1: Principle of necessary concatenation (what is to be shared is stern and sublime).

CCUniRep3.0: In true conversation, everyone always knows exactly what was just said (principle of universal representation).

CCUniRep3.1: Everyone participating in a conversation can know exactly what was just said.

CCUniRep3.2: Everyone participating in a conversation should know exactly what was just said.

CCUniRep3.3: Principle of testing.

CCUniRep4.0: Principle of ontological nakedness (self-consciousness condition).

CCUniRep4.1: Principle of transparent motive (principle of contextual insensitivity).

CCUniRep4.2: Principle of idealistic motivation (principle of idealism).

CCUniRep4.3: Principle of motivation by love (love of the deed).

Principles of Expressibility and Causal Reference

CCExCR1.0: Principle of expressibility (principle of the conversational impulse).

CCExCR1.0: Principle of causal reference (principle of material efficiency).

Principles of Judgment

CCJ1.0: Principle of the judgment (principle of assertion).

CCJ1.1: Principle of judgmental circumspection (principle of reality invocation).

CCJ1.1.1: Principle of expectation (the social nature of rules).

CCJ1.1.1.1: Principle of external regulation (principle of heteronomy).

CCJ1.1.2: Principle of judgment as freedom.

Principles of the Directive

CCDir1.0: Principle of the directive.

CCDir1.1: Principle of universal direction.

CCDir1.2: The general will (what everybody wants, rationalized).

CCDir1.3: Principle of equal power (principle of the least intelligent).

Principles of Commissive, Expressive and Declaration

CCCED1.0: Principle of the commissive.

CCCED2.0: Principle of the expressive.

CCCED3.0: Principle of the declaration.

Principles of Engagement

CCEng1.0: Principle of engagement (principle of participation).

CCEng1.1: The limiting condition (if it is not possible to actualize a universal judgment with respect to some current content, conversation is not possible).

CCEng1.2: The law of call-and-response (the law of dialog).

Principles of Self-Regulation

CCSR1.0: Principle of self-regulation (principle of autonomy).

CCSR1.1: Principle of responsible control (principle of responsibility).

CCSR1.2: Principle of autonomy in conversational content.

CCSR1.3: Principle of self-knowledge (principle of self-consciousness).

Principles of Non-Sequitur

CCNS1.0: Principle of non-sequitur.

CCNS1.1: An individual who disputes a proposition or norm not under discussion must provide a reason for wanting to do so.

Principles of Logic

CCLog1.0: Principle of logic.

CCLog1.1: Principle of logical intelligibility.

CCLog1.2: Principle of logical notation.

CCLog1.3: Principle of logical proof.

CCLog1.4: No speaker may contradict himself (herself).

CCLog1.5: Every speaker who applies predicate F to object A must be prepared to apply F to all other objects resembling A in all relevant respects.

CCLog1.6: Different speakers may not use the same expression with different meanings.

CCLog1.7: Principle of reasonableness (no conversation is about nonsense).

CCLog1.8: Principle of good faith (no conversation is grounded on bad faith).

CCLog2.0: Principle of extensionality.

CCLog2.1: Basic conversational algorithm.

Principles of Truth

CCTr1.0: Only true judgments are allowed in conversation (principle of truth).

CCTr1.1: Every speaker may assert only what he (she) really believes (sincerity condition).

CCTr2.0: Truth is universal satisfaction (principle of pragmatism).

CCTr2.1: Principle of logos (principle of the spirit of truth).

Principles of Freedom

CCFr1.0: In conversation, everyone is always free to say whatever he (she) wants to say (principle of freedom).

CCFr1.1: Everyone with the competence to speak and act is allowed to take part in a discourse.

CCFr1.2a: Everyone is allowed to question any assertion whatever.

CCFr1.2b: Everyone is allowed to introduce any assertion whatever into the discourse.

CCFr1.2c: Everyone is allowed to express his (her) attitudes, desires and needs.

CCFr1.3: No speaker may be prevented, by internal or external coercion, from exercising his (her) rights as represented in CCFr1.1 and CCFr1.2.

Divinity Principles

CCDiv1.0: Divinity principle (principle of authentic collective intentionality).

CCDiv1.1: Principle of the City of God (principle of divine cosmic evolution).

CCDiv1.2: Principle of cosmic competition (principle of culture and counter-culture).

Principles of Spiritual Initiation

CCSIn1.0: Principle of continuity.

CCSIn1.1: Principle of alchemy.

CCSIn1.2: Principle of silent work (seed principle).

CCSIn2.0: Principle of spiritual initiation (real conversation aims at spiritual initiation).

CCSIn2.1: Principle of equanimity (sit still and stay relaxed).

CCSIn2.2: Principle of positivity.

CCSIn2.3: Principle of open-mindedness.

CCSIn3.0: Principle of inspiration.

CCSIn3.1: Principle of the super-effort (principle of pure intentionality).

CCSIn4.0: Principle of the imagination (principle of fantasy).

CCSIn5.0: The exercise of thinking.

CCSIn6.0: The exercise of willing (principle of strength in the will).

CCSIn7.0: Principle of sacrifice.

CCSIn7.1: Principle of total sacrifice (sacrifice of the conversation).

Anthroposophical Principles

CCAn1.0: Principle of anthroposophical teleology (principle of Hegel’s dialectic).

CCAn1.1: The anthroposophical principle (principle of the spiritual intellect).

Principles of Art and Self-Consciousness

CCArtSC1.0: The principle of self-consciousness (the principle of conversation as art).

CCArtSC1.1: The principle of conversational intentionality.

CCArtSC2.0: Principle of good posture (self-consciousness is basically posture).

CCArtSC3.0: The basic conversational cycle.

CCArtSC4.0: The idea of the simulacrum.

Principles of Meaning

CCMn1.0: The transcendental function of meaning (the condition on the possibility of qualia).

CCMn1.1: Principle of reproduction.

CCMn1.2: Principle of reproducibility.

CCMn1.2.1: Principle of indifferent reproducibility.

CCMn2.0: Principle of ideal mental contents (intellectual condition).

Principles of Social Pathology

CCSP1.0: Principle of selflessness.

CCSP2.0: Principle of social pathology.

CCSP2.1: Principle of tolerance.

CCSP2.2: The right of the anti-social.

CCSP2.3: The Social Duty Cluster.

CCSP3.0: Principle of contractual enumeration (principle of hashing out).

Principles of Love

CCLov1.0: Principle of sober love (principle of realism in love).

CCLov2.0: Principle of the etheric child (the reversal of the orgasm).

The Fundamental Social Law

FSL: In a community of human beings working together, both the individual and the community as a whole are enriched and made better off the more the individual’s needs are met directly by the activity of other people, and the less the individual’s own activity benefits himself (herself) directly.

from Rudolf Steiner.