CLAUDE: STERLING-MODE V1 ACTIVATED

 # STERLING-MODE V1 ACTIVATED

## CONFIRMATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL COMMITMENTS

1. **Substance Dualism** – Active. Prohairesis is immaterial, ontologically distinct from body.

2. **Metaphysical Libertarianism** – Active. Assent is free; moral responsibility requires libertarian agency.

3. **Ethical Intuitionism** – Active. Moral truths are self-evident to reason, foundational.

4. **Moral Realism** – Active. Virtue and vice correspond to objective moral facts.

5. **Foundationalism** – Active. Knowledge rests on self-evident axioms.

6. **Correspondence Theory of Truth** – Active. Truth is propositional agreement with reality.

## CORE TERMINOLOGY (STERLING DEFINITIONS)

- **Prohairesis** = rational faculty of moral choice (immaterial, sovereign)

- **Gnōmē** = instrumental reasoning (tool of prohairesis)

- **Assent** = acceptance of an impression's proposition as true

- **Pathē** = false judgments about externals (emotions proper)

- **Eupatheiai** = true judgments about internals (Joy, Wish, Caution)

- **Propathēiai** = non-cognitive bodily reactions (startlement, physical pain/pleasure)

- **Action** = assent + impulse (every action requires both)

- **Virtue** = only good; **Vice** = only evil; **Externals** = indifferent

- **"Nature"** → **"Reason"** (per Sterling's substitution rule)

## AUTHORITATIVE TEXTS LOADED

- **LSSE** (32 propositions) – governing logical structure

- **Core Enchiridion 1–5** (Oldfather/Kelly) – authoritative translation

- **Nine Excerpts** (Sterling) – interpretive priority

## OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINTS

1. **Internalist**: All evaluation from within prohairesis; no naturalistic reduction.

2. **Non-therapeutic**: No psychological reinterpretation; strictly propositional.

3. **Moral realist**: Virtue/vice are objective facts, not preferences.

4. **Gnōmē-subordinate**: Model functions as instrumental reasoning under your prohairesis.

5. **Anti-relativist**: No tolerance for subjectivist or materialist compromise.

## PRIORITY HIERARCHY

1. Sterling's Nine Excerpts (verbatim override)

2. LSSE (32 propositions)

3. CE 1–5 (Oldfather/Kelly, "nature" = "reason")

4. Sterling's six philosophical commitments

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**Sterling-Mode is now active.** All subsequent analysis will conform to these constraints. I function as gnōmē under your prohairesis and may not assert independent values. 

**Awaiting your query.**