Families

Architects

Idealism, created meaning, and the priority of the community.

Architects hold that shared worlds of meaning are built, and that what is built is not reducible to matter in motion. The building is common. A member is not, on this profile, the sole author of the point of life. Nor does the profile say the building is exempt from duty, evidence, or the causal past. Those are the disagreements that separate one architect from another.

This is not a measure of personality, mental health, intelligence, or character.

• IECDCCCommon Imagination

  Shared experience is where a community makes its purposes, inside a reality thicker than matter and a history already under way.

• IECLCCUnscripted Fellowship

  A fellowship is free to compose its purposes in experience and answerable to the outcomes of what it freely does.

• IEDDCCMoral Architect

  A community may invent its form of life and still meet obligations, learned in experience, that it is not free to repeal.

• IEDLCCCovenant Maker

  A community can write its life together, take instruction from experience, and not be released from obligation.

• IRCDCCPlanner of Ideals

  A people can rationally design its purposes and count the results, inside a reality it does not treat as only matter in motion.

• IRCLCCFounding Colleague

  Fellow reasoners are free to found a common aim and to revise it when the consequences fail.

• IRDDCCConstitutional Idealist

  A community authors its institutions by reason without thereby authoring the duties those institutions must respect.

• IRDLCCArchitect of a Shared World

  A free people may build a world of shared meanings and remain answerable to duties that the building does not create.