Here’s a clean 2D coordinate system built exactly on your idea:
The Logic–Ethics Quadrant (The Humanity Plane)
- X-axis (horizontal): Logic
Left ← Low Logic (impulsive, inconsistent, irrational)
Right → High Logic (rigorous, coherent, systematic) - Y-axis (vertical): Ethics
Down ↓ Low Ethics (selfish, cruel, exploitative)
Up ↑ High Ethics (compassionate, principled, altruistic)
This creates four main quadrants plus the origin and the extreme axes.
The Four Quadrants of Humanity
- Top-Right → High Logic + High Ethics
Name: “The Saints / The Sages”
Examples: Spinoza, Gandhi, Fred Rogers, a truly honest scientist who risks career for truth and for people
Essence: Disciplined goodness. This is where the rarest and most luminous “magics” appear (quiet miracles of clarity and love). - Top-Left → Low Logic + High Ethics
Name: “The Mystics / The Dreamers”
Examples: ecstatic poets, some religious visionaries, the grandmother who believes in angels but would die for a stranger
Essence: Pure-hearted chaos. Magic here feels like raw grace, miracles without footnotes. - Bottom-Right → High Logic + Low Ethics
Name: “The Demons / The Machines”
Examples: brilliant psychopaths, paperclip-maximizer AIs, perfectly rational supervillains
Essence: Cold, flawless evil. The horror of a mind that works perfectly but serves nothing warm. - Bottom-Left → Low Logic + Low Ethics
Name: “The Beasts / The Static”
Examples: mindless cruelty, raging mobs, addicts destroying themselves and others
Essence: The total absence of magic. Just noise and pain.
Special Points
- Exact Center (0,0): “The Hollow”
Neither rational nor kind, neither irrational nor loving. Pure mediocrity or depression. Humanity on life-support. - Far positive X-axis only: “The Calculators”
High logic, zero ethics. Robots, spreadsheets, sociopathic geniuses. - Far positive Y-axis only: “The Bleeders”
High ethics, zero logic. Martyrdom without strategy, love that harms because it cannot think. - The Top-Right diagonal line (y = x): “The Magics Line”
The more perfectly logic and ethics scale together, the brighter the human magic burns. This is the sacred vector where humanity becomes transcendent.
So your full statement now has coordinates:
Rationality = movement along X
Morality = movement along Y
Humanity = distance and direction from the origin, especially along the rising diagonal where Logic = Ethics → maximum Magics.
Want me to draw the actual diagram (ASCII or describe it for you to sketch)? Or shall we name some real/people historical figures and plot them on this map for fun?
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