Daniel Raphael, Ph. D
Daniel Raphael is an independent original thinker, and futurist. He is a Vietnam veteran with 18-years of experience working in adult felony criminal corrections; father of three and grandfather of five children; former volunteer fireman, small business owner, inventor, and manufacturer of a household sewing machine product; self-taught theologian, ethicist, and holistic life coach; principal of Daniel Raphael Consulting since 2003; and a remarkably unsuccessful self-published author of numerous books, papers, and articles. Daniel enjoys public speaking and has taught numerous classes and workshops nationally and internationally.
Books, Articles, White Papers
A.I. and White Swan Predictability
While Black Swan Events are fairly predictable from noting prior historic repetition, White Swan Events are predictable from discovering incomplete social theories, for example ethics and human motivation. Ethics would be a very good place to start as in the 2500-years of raging philosophical ethical discussions from before the time of Socrates to the present time, has not one stable, immutable theory of ethics that would apply to all of humanity individually and collectively. It would be very interesting to witness what AI would discover from the troves of research discussions of the hundreds of published social science papers involving ethics and related materials of what benefits people and societies and what does not.
The Organic Completion of Maslow’s Theory of Human Motivation
The Theory of Organic Human Motivation does the heavy lifting of explaining an organic basis for human motivation. The outcome has, for over 200,000 years, resulted in the survival and thriving existence of humans individually and collectively.
Being organic to humans, the basis of human motivation originates from the genetic instructions within the human genome. This illustration of the seven motivation-values shows four primary and three secondary motivation-values. The primary values preconsciously influence human decision-making to survive, and to thrive.
The three secondary values are generated from the primary value “equality.” They are responsible for our conscious, though volitional, decisions to express our humane interest in others, or not.
Manifesto for Designing Self-Sustaining Democratic Societies
Jared Diamond has written extensively on the demise of many dozens of societies and past civilizations, yet there is no record of the collapse and demise of a global civilization. If the global social, political, and economic crises continue and the viral pandemic, environmental, geophysical, and meteorological cataclysms continue, we can anticipate that our global civilization today will soon join the numbers of past societies, nations, cultures, empires, and civilizations that have risen, crested, declined, collapsed and disintegrated.
For those of us who remain, will we choose to rebuild what has collapsed or will we rebuild using new social, political, and economic designs of that will support social stability, social sustainability, and peace? And if those who remain choose to use self-sustaining designs, where will they get them?
Not everyone is aware that our nations and civilization are now in the process of failing, and very few have thought it would be necessary to plan for recovery Before the collapse is fully underway.
Organic Philosophy — Intellectual Philosophy
While all philosophies are based on values, the organic philosophy is based on the seven universal and timeless motivation-values from the genetic instructions of the Homo sapiens species, and has been for over 200,000 years. These seven motivation-values provide the basis for the universal and timeless ethical and moral rules of decision-making.
Organic philosophies are based on those values, and in philosophical statements the ethics and morality come to bear upon expected behaviors, while the ideals we hold in mind for a philosophical topic provide the goals for ethical and moral behavior.
Because organic philosophies are complemental to organic theories of ethics and human motivation, their impact upon the social sciences is immense. These same theories and philosophies cause those fields of study to become proactively actionable for the benefit of individuals, families, and communities. The effect would produce societies that move toward maturing development, social evolution, and peace.
Intellectual philosophy has been in existence even before Socrates and Aristotle. Yet, after 2500 years intellectual philosophy still struggles to establish a immutable theory of ethics. Today there are over two dozen theories of ethics. The ethical principles that are typically used to support traditional ethics theories are not based on any permanent, universal, or timeless values. Thus their continuing philosophical argumentation.
Understanding the BASIS of Ethics
The basis of ethics involves 1) what benefits human survival and thriving existence; 2) the defining elements of “what benefits”; 3) a process of discerning of “what benefits” and what does not. 4) The parameters that guide the process of discerning “what benefits” are the seven innate human motivator-values that originate in the human genome as genetic instructions. 5) After discerning has taken place, a preconscious or conscious decision is made to take action to carry out the discernment. When the action occurs that is in alignment with “what benefits” humans individually or collectively, then an ethical decision and action have taken place. Fundamentally, all ethics are grounded in the genetic instructions of the Homo sapiens species.
Understanding the Basis of Ethics begins its logic sequence with the 200,000-year existence of the human species. This logic answers the question of how it was possible for our species to survive and thrive over the course of 200,000. The text provides a brief, superficial explanation for a theory of Organic Ethics. Far more extensive explanations are provided in the original document.
Much as thousands of organic molecules can be created from four basic elements of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, many thousands of functional, lasting relationships can be created from seven genetic instructions as motivation-values of the human genome. They provide for the creation of a holism of ethical and moral rules of decisions-making.
Book #1 of Designing Civilization’s New Era
Seven Innate Human Values
Book #1, Seven Innate Human Values, provides the foundation for the logic and reasoning of subsequent conceptual developments in the following six books.
Book #2 of Designing Civilization’s New Era
Making Sense of Ethics
Book #2, Making Sense of Ethics, A Universally Applicable Theory of Ethics, Morality, and Values, uses those same values described in book #1 to create the timeless and universal rules of ethical and moral decision-making.
Book #3 of Designing Civilization’s New Era
Societal Morality
Book #3, Societal Morality, then builds upon the concepts of books one and two, to expand the definition of morality as a rational responsibility of individuals and organizations.
Book #4 of Designing Civilization’s New Era
The Design Team Process
Book #4, The Design Team Process, is in contemporary terminology an “app” of the values, ethics, and morality described in earlier books to create a rational and logical local community process for the analysis and discernment of social, political, and economic issues that affect the local community.
Book #5 of Designing Civilization’s New Era
Family Learning Centers For Sustainable Nations
Book #5, Family Learning Centers for Sustainable Nations, is also an app of the values, ethics, and morality described in earlier books to create rational and logical programs within local community learning centers. The intention is to teach and train those who want to have children, those who already have children, and those who have had children the basics of childcare and parenting from pre-conception through the age that the child leaves home. This program provides the long term means by which a democratic society can bend the trajectory of its culture to become socially stable and eventually at peace. Children raised with this influence will eventually become the leaders, executives, and highly ethical and morally capable citizens of those nations and the organizational matrix of civilization. We can anticipate that the start-up phase of this program will probably take two generations to accomplish its embedment in a society.
Book #6 of Designing Civilization’s New Era
3 Stages of Democracy
Book #6, 3 Stages of Democracy, begins by recounting the 1200-year history of the development of democracy in western civilization. The trend of that development has been toward more and more direct participation of citizens in their own governance. Current communication technologies will continue this trend which is what Book #6 describes.
Book #7 of Designing Civilization’s New Era
Conclusions for Designing Civilization’s New Era
Book #7, Conclusions, provides each book’s conclusions in a compendium of conclusions. The overriding conclusion is that the times and circumstances of the social, political, and economic problems, international conflicts of various dimensions, and the long term change of global consciousness are all vectors that are coming to a nexus of immense, profound, change in our civilization. (See Vector-Nexus illustration, page 8.) What better time to correct the unplanned development of our civilization that came into existence without a plan and intention for its existence, development, than now when the lack of planning for the survival and social sustainability of democratic nations is so obviously needed?
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