Epistemological pluralism situates human beings in a world that can be known only partially. And one’s partiality determines one’s focus of attention and one’s experimental activities. The truth one finds in the world and integrates as a body of knowledge depends entirely on how one lives out life. Different ways of living necessarily yield different and often conflicting bodies of partial truth. The more faithfully, comprehensively and rigorously we pursue, observe and order truth, the more it will diverge.

Ontological pluralism adheres to a taoist metaphysic, though not necessarily a taoist ethic (te).

Ethical pluralism ethic asserts that the testimony of different conceptions of truth ought to be treated as valid.

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My own ethical pluralism aims at a world where I and those around me share a world we can comprehend, act within, and care about.

That last point: creating a world we can care about together is the cornerstone of this ethic.

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The world can become many things to us.

We can make it explicable or mysterious.

We can make it an epic project, or an endless game.

We can make it something  we love, or we can make it into something we endure.

We make what the world becomes, and we make who humanity becomes.

Humanity is always the child and parent of humanity.

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Human nature is artificiality.

The only question that matters is the quality of our art.