Moral immanence is the direct experience of cosmic order in daily life. We lost it before modernity got going, and power and profit rushed into the vacuum.
How the word moved
I introduced it in April 2025 in the Pauper commentary on chapters 13 to 15 of The Prince. It's a one-time word so far.
In my words
"We might pray before work, but when we ride a bus, we simply ride a bus"
from Bhumics 12: The Pauper, Part 5 - The Receding Tide, 7 Apr 2025
Related
- Related Securitarian Globe - the vacuum helps explain the criminal style of states.
- Related Machiavelli - I read him as a witness to the receding tide of moral authority.
- Related Pauper - the Pauper answers the vacuum with self-reliance.
Still open
I used it once and haven't come back to it.