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0525 InstitutionsC<\/sub><\/em> become persons writ large<\/em>.  Individuals in communityA<\/sub><\/em> become institutions writ small<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, my discussion of third-person morality<\/em> runs on a parallel track to Tomasello’s discussion of objective morality in chapter four<\/em>.  They run through the same anthropological territory<\/em>, but they stop at different stations<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this junction, I am tantalizingly close to articulating the intersection for Era 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the general version<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0526 The community has a slogan.  What that slogan is, I do not know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0527 What do I know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community<\/em> latches all the productive2H<\/sub> and fun-loving2V<\/sub> teams<\/em> behind the locomotive of one big slogan<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, the community spawns its own teams.  These teams are more than productive2H<\/sub><\/em> and more than fun-loving2V<\/sub><\/em>.  Teams<\/em>are interpellated into being by institutions within the community<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Lebenswelt that we evolved in,<\/em> the community (150) harmonizes all other social circles: family (5), intimates (5), teams (15), bands (50), mega-bands (500) and tribe (1500).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0528 What is a good substitute for more than productivity2H<\/sub><\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does an interpellating organizational objective2H<\/sub><\/em> fit the slot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0529 What potentiates an organizational objective2H<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps, the power of deservingness1H<\/sub><\/em> will do.  An organizational objective2H<\/sub><\/em> emerges from the power of deservingness1H<\/sub><\/em> that comes from serving the “me” of<\/em> a person writ large<\/em>. An organizational objective2H<\/sub><\/em> situates the potential of the power of deservingness1H<\/sub><\/em> with a recognition2H<\/sub> that an individual deserves power2H<\/sub> within the institution3H<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the power of deservingness1H<\/sub><\/em> is situated as deserving of power1H<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that confusing enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love explicit abstractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0530 What is a good substitute for more than having fun2V<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, congregations are about more than having fun<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomasello discusses these types of issues<\/em> in the subsection titled, “Culture and Loyalty”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An institutionC<\/sub> calls the individualA<\/sub> to align his or her individual perceptionsA<\/sub> with the perceptions of a person writ largeC<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0531 Surely, interpellation brings a common cultural groundC<\/sub> into relation with individual cultural practicesA<\/sub> (or “conventions”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interpellation keys into Tomasello’s explicit terminology,<\/em> including “identification”, “loyalty”, “legitimization” and “moralization”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0531 Interpellation offers a societal identity2V<\/sub> to the personA<\/sub> who aligns his or her judgments, perceptions and feelings to the person writ largeC<\/sub>.  The Germans have a word for this.  The word is “denkalign”.  “Denk” means “thought”.  If a person may be characterized as a perceptive soul [animates] a reactive body,<\/em> then denkalignment<\/em> offers a way for the perceptive soul to train its body’s emotions<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0533 Oh, now I can start to appreciate what Tomasello means by the term, “objective morality”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through denkalignment, I train my emotions according to a worldview that exists independently of what anyone thinks of it<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0534 Here is a picture of the substitutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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