Three Tenets

Three coequal tenets

Freedom, Situation Theory and Just Enough

It presents these three coequal tenets:

The three tenets

Freedom is innate; its exercise is relational.

Freedom belongs to the being rather than being conferred by another human, institution or entity. Yet every exercise of freedom occurs among other beings, places, histories and consequences. Its exercise must therefore account for reciprocity, consent, responsibility and the corresponding freedom of others.

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Everything is situational — Situation Theory.

Principles may orient us, but their application depends on particular circumstances and requires discernment. Relationship, history, necessity, alternatives and consequences matter. Context determines how principle can be responsibly applied.

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Just Enough.

Just Enough is the least dominating intervention adequate to genuine care, undertaken at the fitting time, in the fitting measure, for sound reasons, and revised according to its consequences.

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The project asks how we might live with greater freedom and coherence within the natural world.