Yeretho
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| Born | Petrial 13, 1889 Lerzin, Terophatic Empire |
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| Died | Nollonger 12, 1970 (aged 80) |
| Era | Post-Radiance |
| Region | Outer Joriscia |
| School | Socialism |
| Main interests | Politics and society |
| Notable ideas | social mechanics, hypermachines, Knowledge fields, iterative eleutherism, social recursion of the metacosm |
| Institutions | Prysostaic School |
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Yeretho (Rashimic: ⰐⰃⰋⰄ ⰀⰠⰓⰕⰙⰂ Nġid Hĕrtōv; Petrial 13, 1889 – Nollonger 12, 1970) was a Vaestic Scholar who played in a seminal role in the development of contemporary socialism. Yeretho proposed a deeply collectivist analysis of the banner-state as a large-scale machine, and submerged the concept of the individual within mechanical "Knowledge fields". In his later works, he discarded person-level analysis entirely, holding that particular people are merely instances of the relational free will of the Knowledge field.
Biography
Philosophy
Social mechanics
Drawing on the development of experimental metaphysics from mundane mechanics, Yeretho proposed the idea of a social mechanics. Avoiding the heretical notion of determinism, Yeretho developed a novel framework that allowed for the consideration of society from a broad mechanical perspective while maintaining the core Vaestic doctrines of free will and individual transcension. Yeretho became more radical in his conception of social mechanics over the course of his life, dissolving the individual into his idea of social machines, in some of his final works he obliquely intimated a complete abandonment of the doctrine of individual transcension as commonly understood.
Social mechanics is rendered possible metaphysically for Yeretho due to the "social recursion of the metacosm"; that is, the proposition that since human souls are under the constant influence of the metacosm, determinable metacosmic mechanisms operate on the social level.
Hypermachines and Knowledge fields
Yeretho conceptualized the banner-state as a massive social machine geared towards the generation of Knowledge. These large-scale Knowledge-generating machines he termed "hypermachines", replacing and extending the more basic Radiance conception of the state as a person with the general image of a complex integrated machine. Within the hypermachine, individuals act as Knowledge vectors rather than themselves being the principal loci of Knowledge. Knowledge exists beyond the individual, embedded within social networks, in the form of the "Knowledge field". The Knowledge field generated by a hypermachine is analogous to the Zeitgeist of a particular society, and acts as the field of prior social relations within which individuals are embedded.
Iterative eleutherism
Expanding his analysis, Yeretho went on to destabilize the notion of the individual by positing that free will exists within the Knowledge field of the hypermachine rather than situated within individuals. Instead of there being individual free wills as a naive reading of Vaestic doctrine would suggest, Yeretho argued that free will was merely instantiated by individuals, and existed through iteration. On a metaphysical level, Yeretho argued that the process of shattering reincarnation contradicts the idea of neatly separate individual spirits: ultimately one can strictly speak only of a single collective human spirit which is endlessly reiterated in particular physical forms through interaction with the metacosm.
In his later works, Yeretho abandoned the notion of the individual entirely, holding that physical people are only subinstances of this singular collective spirit, organized as processing arrays within hypermachines. Yeretho saw transcension as the dissipation of these particular arrays into the Knowledge field.
Works
Evaluation
Due to his radical ideology, Yerethonian philosophy has provoked widely different reactions among Vesnites. Some conservative Scholars see Yeretho's ideas as unacceptably heterodox, contradictory to fundamental Vaestic principles and representing an unacceptable intrusion of extraneous political concepts into Vaestic philosophy. On the other hand, Yeretho's radical collectivism has made his mode of analysis popular in official circles. Unusually for a Vaestic philosopher, some of Yeretho's works have received relatively wide attention in Messenia, and for some time he was popularly termed the "Politician of the East". Rebuttals of "Yerethonism" continue to be produced in the west.