Phenomenal Individuality

One version of the Humpty Dumpty doctrine has the cosmic fragmentation as a real event, with Morality as the program of actually trying to put the pieces back together. A more subtle, and powerfully influential version, might be called Phenomenal ('phenomenon'=the literally accurate 'appearance', not = the faddish 'extraordinary event') Humpty Dumpty-ism--Humpty has not actually fallen, but various parts of his body believe that he has. For example, the feeling in a particular finger might conclude not merely that this finger was absolutely severed from the others, but that the feeling itself is absolutely separate from other feelings. Analogously, many believe in the existence of a unitary collective 'Mind' or 'Soul' that is implanted in particular bodies, thereby losing sight of its own essential non-particularity. Morality in such doctrines thus consists in the Soul's or Mind's overcoming of the illusion of such particularity. Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, in places, and Heidegger, are among the more explicit advocates of such a doctrine, but it is also pervasively implicit. Correspondingly, Morality functions in them like a 'Wittgenstein's ladder', namely as a program that is rendered irrelevant by its successful completion. But, as is the case with all Humpty Dumpty doctrines, its soundness depends on its premise that Particularity lacks constructive meaning. Evolvementalism offers such a constructive meaning, so its Phronetics entails the cultivation of the Individuality of Particulars, not its repression.