The Natural Law Institute

What’s Here?
Here are the volumes we are planning to publish. It is an absurd scope of work. No sane person would set out to produce it. It’s just the end result of decades of effort. As a team, we work in public on the site, live, because it’s the easiest way for us to collaborate together. So, these docs are not in condition for public consumption. They consist of the outline for the work and the notes we’ve accumulated.

 

Volume One – The Crisis of the Age 

(Front Matter)
Crisis: Introduction – The Age of Lies
Crisis I: The Loss of Truth

  • The fragmentation of epistemology

  • The institutionalization of falsehood

  • The decline of testifiability

Crisis II: The Loss of Responsibility

  • The death of duty and the cult of rights

  • Market failures and moral failures

  • The managerial and democratic catastrophe

Crisis III: The Loss of Reciprocity

  • Parasitism by elites and dependents

  • Breakdown of the commons across domains

  • The collapse of intertemporal trust

Crisis IV: The Overproduction of Irreciprocity

  • Incentivizing fraud in economics, politics, and culture

  • Legal fictions and moral inversion

  • Malthusian reversion in moral, social, and political capital

Crisis V: The Failure of Institutions

  • Judicial betrayal of the common law

  • Bureaucratic betrayal of the state

  • Academic betrayal of reason

Crisis VI: The Demand for Restoration

  • What can be recovered

  • What must be reformed

  • What must be replaced

(Back Matter)
Crisis: Notes, References, and Fragments

Volume Two – A System Of Measurement

(Front Matter)
Measurement: Introduction – From Meaning to Measurement

Measurement I: What is Measurement?

  • Commensurability, comparability, perceivability

  • Dimensions as relations between measures

  • Measurement as constraint on inference and cooperation

Measurement II: The Dimensional Structure of Language

  • Signals, indices, symbols, and grammars

  • Positional vs cardinal dimensions

  • Words as dimensional indices to meaning networks

Measurement III: The Limits of Measurement

  • Intelligibility, decidability, and testifiability

  • Categoricity, causality, continuity, computability

  • The cost of precision and the hierarchy of truth

Measurement IV: Grammars as Systems of Measurement

  • Ordinary, deflationary, and inflationary grammars

  • Grammatical inflation as institutional parasitism

  • Operational grammars and the rule of law in speech

Measurement V: Constructing Universal Commensurability

  • From operational definitions to dimensions

  • From meaning to metrics to logic

  • Converting intuition into decidability

Measurement VI: The Adversarial Method

  • The logic of falsification

  • The logic of adversarialism

  • The canon of reciprocity and the metric of truth

(Back Matter)
Measurement: Glossary, Definitions, and Reference Tables

Volume Three – The Logic

  • The Laws: The Pamphlet Cover
  • The Laws (Front Matter)
  • Introduction – Themes
  • The Laws: Introduction
  • The Laws I: The Physical Laws
  • The Laws II: The Biological Laws
  • The Laws III: Cognitive Laws
  • The Laws IV : The Behavioral Law (Cooperation)
  • The Laws V: The Evolutionary Law (Competition)
  • The Laws VI: The Formal Law
  • The Laws VII: The Natural Law of Decidability
  • The Pamphlet: (Back Matter)
  • The Laws: Resources for Reference while writing

Volume Four: The Law(Constitution)

  • (Front Matter)
  • Constitution: Introduction
  • Constitution: The Declaration
  • Constitution: The Reformation
  • Constitution: Enforcement
  • Constitution: (Back Matter)

     

Volume Five: The Reformation

Volume Six: The Prosecution

  • Front Matter ()
  • The Choice Series
  • Our Strategy
  • The Prosecution
  • The Prosecution of Abrahamism
  • The Special Pleading Of Jews and Muslims as Warfare
  • The Prosecution Against Libertarianism
  • Back Matter ()

Volume – The History

    • Front Matter (History)
    • The Conflict
    • Appendix (Related Articles)
    • (Back Matter) – History, Conflict

 

Volume – The Europeans (Lex Europaei)

  • Front Matter ()
  • The Natural Law Of The European Peoples

 

Volume – Our Myths and Religion

  • (Front Matter)
  • The Book of Tales
  • (Back matter)

 

Volume – The Science

  • Front Matter ()
  • The Introduction
  • Part I – The Methodology
  • Part II – Physical Laws of Nature
  • Part III – Behavioral Laws of Nature
  • Part IV – Evolutionary Laws of Nature
  • Part V – Formal Laws: Decidability
  • Part VI – Law
  • Part VII – Synthesis (Explanation, History)
  • Part VIII – What Went Wrong (Our Failures)
  • Part XI – Conclusion
  • Back Matter

Courseware Scripts

  • Foundations – Brains Mind Consciousness