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Luminous Moral Illumination™: Expanding the Circle of Care
Moral development read as the widening of the circle of what counts — and the cost of each widening.
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Self, family, tribe, nation, humanity, the living world. The history of ethics can be read as a slow expansion of the boundary inside which a being's suffering matters, and the same expansion happens inside a single life. This volume follows that sequence and is precise about the mechanism: each widening requires giving up a form of preference that had felt like loyalty.
It handles the hard cases directly — that the circle can be widened rhetorically while remaining narrow in practice, that an expanded circle can be used as a reason to neglect what is close, and that abstraction is one of the ways people avoid the person in front of them.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.