Functioning of a Philosophy School: PH'5Q5sH

The functioning of a philosophy school is a complicated matter with a variety of requirements and components, many of which have been touched on in passing in earlier sections.

We can start from the likely reality that all functioning must rest on the discharge of responsibilities and the performance of work as initially described in the introductory section.

Basic Responsibilities become Monads (G1)

The work required within a school used labels to reflect psychosocial reality in that the noun is social and the adjective is psychological. This structure is a way for us to re-visit the 7 levels and be reminded of the responsibilities.

L1: Realized Fundamentals

Fundamentals are the socially-shared principles characterising the doctrine

Realization is the psychological requirement for these to be experienced as truths without which there can be no school.

L2: Personalized Mentoring

Mentoring is a socially-shared activity for explaining and inculcating the doctrine.

Personalization is the psychological requirement for teaching to be effective. Without this, new adherents have immense difficulty in grasping and fully owning the ideas.

L3: Standardized Dissemination

Dissemination is a socially-shared process in which the doctrine is made easily available to outsiders (the general public).

Standardization is a psychological requirement of adherents about the current orthodoxy and how essentials of the doctrine are to be communicated.

L4: Formalized Membership

Membership is a socially-shared statement of belonging to an organisation dedicated to upholding the doctrine.

Formalization is the psychological requirement for submission to some system of rules that constitutes an organization and determines its functioning.

L5: Recognized Guardianship

Guardianship is a socially-shared role in which the holder is expected to make definitive rulings about the correctness and continuity of the doctrine.

Recognition is the psychological requirement of adherents that allows guardians to effectively exercise power over the school.

L6: Authorized Revision

Revision is a socially-shared process in which the doctrine is deliberately modified to deal with problematic issues or unnecessary limitations.

Authorization is the psychological requirement of adherents to approve the validity and acceptability of any revision.

L7: Generalized Application

Application is a socially-shared process in which the doctrine illuminates societal issues to potenetially generate benefits for many.

Generalization refers to apsychological requirement for simplification of essential doctrinal principles to enable their application to benefit society.

By combining these responsibilities in a systematic way, a fuller picture of the functioning of a philosophy school can be revealed. In the taxonomy, this is developed via a structural hierarchy.

The Structural Hierarchy

The taxonomic form that provides for the necessary integration of levels is a Structural Hierarchy. Each Level in such a hierarchy is a Grouping and contains all Levels of the originating hierarchy. This section will investigate the Groupings and offer formulations which have been well tested in practice.

Technical Details:

Structural Hierarchies are developed by progressively grouping adjacent Levels of THEE’s 7-Level holistic hierarchies in all possible ways. «Holistic» means that Levels in the hierarchy broadly imply or include each other, and this applies here.

The first «Level» in a Structural Hierarchy is a Grouping of 1 Level i.e. Grouping-1 (G1) contains 7 Groups that are Monads i.e. made up of 1 original Level. The next «Level» will contain all Groups of 2 adjacent Levels i.e. G2 contains 6 Dyads…and so on until we reach G7, the Heptad Grouping where there is just one Group consisting of all 7 original Levels. As a result, every G-Level contains all the Levels of the originating hierarchy i.e. the original differentiation of an entity into Levels has been replaced by a re-unification applicable at each G-Level.There are 28 Groups (components) in a Structural Hierarchy.

However, definition of this THEE form is far more complex. Internal Levels i.e. the Levels within any Group, have distinctive qualifiers, and are labelled with a lower case 'g', e.g. g4 refers to the 4^th Level in each of the Tetrads, Pentads, Hexads and the Heptad; and so g4 does not exist in the Monads, Dyads or Triads which have less than 4 internal Levels.

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The Groupings and their Groups are ways to integrate work and overcome the differentiation and discontinuity demanded by the hierarchical stratification of responsibilities. They have unique functions and properties and explain phenomena easily noticed in social life.

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Originally posted: 28-Apr-2024. Last amended: 25-Aug-2025.