Entanglements: a System of Philosophy

(1) Non-dogmatic physicalism: the world is a system of physical things/events.
(2) The world is not a product of the human mind; the human mind is a product of the world.
(3) Truth = the world. "True" and "real" are, more or less, synonymous. True propositions emerge from a reality-preserving relationship between world and consciousness, mediated by public language.
(4) Individuals are constituted by their relations to other persons/things, in an accumulation over time. But each such set of accumulated relations (each individual) is massively unique.
(5) Perception is a process by which the human body is penetrated by the world.
(6) Content-externalism: the mind actually encompasses external situations. The content of human mental states is not merely in the head.
(7) Communication is a process by which human bodies penetrate one another.
(8) Beauty is neither in the eye of the beholder nor (merely) a feature in the things beheld, but is a feature of the situation in which object is juxtaposed with perceiver, in which the integrity of each is cherished and compromised.
(9) Ethics concerns relations between persons, animals, things that compromise their distinctness from one another, or is a form of perception/communication understood as mutual permeation. This is captured in basic experiences/principles such as empathy, golden rule: extensions of the self into the other, and of the other into the self.
(10) Politics concerns the juxtapositions of individuals that constitute interpersonal and environmental situations/arrangements; a decent politics starts from a situation of individuals in relationship/juxtaposition, distinctness/merging.