SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 1: Is It Worth It? / SAE 二次启蒙论 第一篇: 值不值

SAE · The Second Enlightenment · Paper 1. This record holds the Chinese final text (v1.0) and the English edition (v1.0). The English edition is an independent rewrite, not a translation. It sets out propositions W1–W7, numbered continuously across the series. Abstract (English) The logic of "is it worth it?" can be written as two sentences. One is a scale: first weigh what a thing, a person or a stretch of time can bring back, and give only once it has been weighed. The other is a reading: whoever does anything, in the end it is all about interest. The first sentence has a proper place in post, but the scale can narrow until it accepts only reasons that can be quantified, and it can also weigh things outside the share it is in charge of. Matters in post fall into three layers, norm, rule and judgment, and above the three there is a root: a person is an end. Counting heads is not supported by the norm; a rule can at most allow it as a last resort, and cannot vouch for it. The second sentence turns every answer back into interest, whatever the answer, and so makes mind-reading into an assumption about everyone. Two hundred years and more later, the paper returns to Kant's essay of 1784: then, those who did people's thinking for them could be recognized; this time the scale has no single author, and a group of people colonize one another, and each colonizes himself. 摘要(中文) “值不值”的逻辑可以写成两句话:一杆秤,先称一件事、一个人、一段时间能换回什么,称过了才给;一种读法,谁做一件事,说到底都是为了利益。第一句在其位上本来有它的地方,可秤会变窄,只收能量化的理由,也会称到它管的那一份外面。在其位的事分规范、规则、判断三层,三层之上有一个根:人是目的。数人头,规范不支持,规则至多允许它作为最后一步,替它作不了保。第二句不论对方怎么答都翻回利益,是把读心做成了对所有人的假定。两百多年后回到康德 1784 年那一篇:那时替人想的认得出;这一次的秤没有统一的作者,一群人互相殖民,也各自殖民自己。 Sources. Quotations from German sources are the author's own renderings, except for the Basic Law, which is quoted in its official English translation. 来源:英文版的德文引语为作者自译,《基本法》照官方英译。 Related identifiers Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.18528812 Systems, Emergence, and the Conditions of Personhood References 10.5281/zenodo.19037566 One's Own Law: The SAE Critique of Ethics and Morality References 10.5281/zenodo.20262737 The Institutional Architecture of Mixed Reality (SAE Moral Law, Paper 9) References 10.5281/zenodo.21212595 On the Limitation and Violation of Basic Rights (SAE Rights, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.21611154 On the Colonization of Value (SAE Value Theory, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.22970758 Anti-Colonization (SAE Action Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874133 What an Economy Is Not (SAE Political Economy, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874140 Chokepoints (SAE Political Economy, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874150 Growth (SAE Political Economy, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874154 Support (SAE Political Economy, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.23874158 Political Economy and the Tradition: Accumulated Power (SAE Political Economy, Paper 0) References 10.5281/zenodo.20455221 On the Morphology of Power (SAE Power Theory, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.19656617 SAE War Treatise: How Cultivation Is Not Swallowed by War Itself These 13 identifiers are the 13 DOIs in the reference lists of the two texts (works of this system); the two lists carry the same set. This series The text cites these papers of this series by number (Prequel, Papers 1 to 7), not in the reference lists. Add them as References too if the record should link to them. Relation Identifier Resource References 10.5281/zenodo.24030393 What the Second Enlightenment Is Not (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Prequel) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030397 For Oneself (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 2) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030401 Reading Structure, Not Minds (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 3) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030409 One's Good, Written in Advance (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 4) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030411 Calling It Worth It (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 5) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030413 No Longer Asking for Proof of Worth First (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 6) References 10.5281/zenodo.24030415 At the Door (SAE The Second Enlightenment, Paper 7)