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The Derivation of Moral Obligation from the Structure of Experience: Why do we owe anything to anyone (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher Price: $24.99
Publisher: Fleming Light Press
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Derivation of Moral Obligation from the Structure of Experience
Why do we owe anything to anyone?
This monumental work of systematic thought does not simply propose a new ethical code, it builds an entire moral architecture from a single, non-negotiable first principle.
Arguing that moral obligation is neither a human invention, a social contract, nor a divine command, the book demonstrates it to be a structural requirement derived directly from the one condition all
thought cannot escape: experience itself.
Through a rigorous descent to this irreducible ground and a carefully constrained ascent, the argument derives the full structure of moral, social, and civilisational life from that single foundation.
The result is a rare unity where ethics, epistemology, and ontology are no longer separate disciplines but expressions of a single, coherent system and functioning as a comprehensive diagnostic tool capable of evaluating the coherence of any entity, from an individual psyche to a global civilization.
Yet the argument is inseparable from its form.
Written in a high-modernist philosophical prose of extraordinary precision, the text is a performative demonstration of its own method.
Philosophy, this work reveals, is not an optional academic exercise. It is the most practical and urgent form of maintenance for a fragile world, a structural requirement for survival itself.
In a time of cascading crises and rampant incoherence, this book makes a definitive, uncompromising case that moral reality is as lawful as mathematics, and that the cost of ignoring it is not damnation but dissolution.
The Derivation of Moral Obligation from the Structure of Experience is a systematic achievement of a rare order, a foundational document for a complete system of thought that demands an equally rigorous engagement.
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