Before further embellishing last month's model of intersecting spheres, I think that I ought to use this month's blogpost to clarify what I'm doing.
I'm broadly seeking to better articulate the structure of Objectivism. Objectivism is the name of the philosophy formulated sketched out by Ayn Rand. Developments upon it (as long as cogent with it) ought to bare a differentiating prefix: Neo–Objectivism. As there are no representational ‘coloured balls’ in her original philosophy, I'm reconciled to the fact that I'm now out prospecting in ‘neo–’ territory. I'm aiming at panning for a novel nugget or two regarding an appropriate way to represent reality, to better conceptualise truth (an alternative way perhaps, handy for those like me who tend to think more visually/spatially when trying to grapple with abstract ideas). However, I'm well aware of suffuse deposits of fool's gold: tempting rationalisations. Utilising spheres to represent philosophical branches may immediately be a red flag to some. But, unflagging prospector that I am, I'll continue to excavate this glittering seam a little further.
But devising an apt representative model for abstract ideas is not my only objective. Such a spatial, hierarchical model ought to help generate the design and layout for a dynamic website too.
Meanwhile, all that said, I'm quarrying away at coding (currently D3.js + HTML) so that these spheres are interactive, navigable and embedded as virtual webpages. More nuggets to be assayed next month…
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