The Structure of Being
A metaphysical treatise on time, sovereignty, consent, value, justice, and truth.
The Structure of Being is the philosophical spine beneath Unslaved.
Where Unslaved gives modern disorientation a story, The Structure of Being offers a radical inquiry into the conditions under which being remains coherent through time.
Its starting point is simple:
Reality is not arbitrary.
Human beings exist within time, consequence, differentiation, interdependence, and truth. No moral, economic, or political system can escape these conditions. It can only honor them or violate them.
The work begins in time and unfolds through a sequence of laws toward truth:
Time
Existence
Evolution
Differentiation
Interdependence
Reflexivity
Sovereignty
Consent
Value
Governance
Justice
Truth
Each law follows from the previous one.
The sequence shows that sovereignty, consent, value, governance, and justice are not preferences imposed upon reality, but consequences of reality's structure.
Time is irreversible ordering.
Existence is exposure to actuality.
Evolution is adaptation through consequence.
Differentiation is the emergence of individuality.
Interdependence is relation without subordination.
Reflexivity is the turning of awareness back upon itself.
Sovereignty is self-governed agency.
Consent is coordination that preserves sovereignty.
Value arises when subjective orientation is tested against reality.
Governance is coordination across scale without domination.
Justice restores coherence between action and consequence.
Truth is the condition under which coherence endures.
The Structure of Being demonstrates how any system that treats human beings as interchangeable units, denies differentiation, severs action from consequence, replaces consent with abstraction, or subordinates the individual to a collective fiction, eventually comes into conflict with reality itself.
Publication Details
Title: The Structure of Being
Author: Philippe Wuyts
Publisher: Aletheia Editions
Format: Hardcover
Publication status: Forthcoming fall 2026
ISBN-13: 978-1-918439-09-0