Prostexia: A Moral Framework Built from the Wreckage of Modern Theory
A system that sees universal, reasoned, and impartial guidance for conduct, not as aspiration, but as the initial requirement.
What Prostexia Is
The name Prostexia—coined-contraction of a Greek phrase—is meant to capture the system’s core commitments: agency as the central moral concern, and deliberate defense as the entry to moral action. The phrase, Prostasia tou Autexousiou, means “defense of agency”.
Prostexian Moral Classifications:
Moral: Defends agency at meaningful personal cost.
Amoral: Defends agency without cost; ethical, but not moral.
Immoral: Fails to defend agency when possible, or actively diminishes it.
The motivation for creating this framework is the failure of current moral systems to provide unambiguous guidance for moral conduct. Deontology paralyzes under conditions involving competing obligations or asymmetrical harm. Virtue ethics collapse into subjectivity. Utilitarianism and consequentialism require omniscience—or worse, faith in blind math.
Prostexia is still very much under construction, but the foundation has been laid, the framing is well established, and there is even a roof. Come shake the columns as I build the walls. If the structure isn’t sound, it doesn’t deserve to stand.
What You Will Find Here
Daily logs of moral or philosophical conversations
Updates to Prostexia as it sharpens, splits, or reconfigures
Exploratory essays on adjacent concepts like moral gravity, rectification vs. reconciliation, and Prostexian justice
What This Is Not
This is not a motivational blog. In my experience, honestly developing a moral framework rarely makes one feel good about oneself. If you’re looking for justification rather than reasoned guidance, you should probably move along.
This is not about virtue signaling. I may use real-world examples to test Prostexian concepts, but posts are not endorsements or condemnations. They are tests.
This is not a sales pitch for belief. If I am doing this right, the framework is fully logical. Whether you believe in a creator or in existence as the inevitable outcome of infinite chance—it makes no difference to me.
I’m not trying to fix the world—I just want to speak clearly about what it means to be a contributing part of it.
About the Author
I’m a builder of moral frameworks, not a preacher of virtues.
I write for those who believe right and wrong are not inherited but constructed—brick by brick, act by act, cost by cost. I’m developing Prostexia, a system for understanding morality through one central premise: agency defended at personal cost is the only moral act.
I’m not an academic. I’m not trying to win arguments. I’m trying to make sense of a world that rewards obedience and punishes reflection. I write daily—logs of thought, moral inquiries, and philosophical challenges—not to be right, but to be honest.
If you’re looking for clickbait ethics, virtue-signaling, or utopian noise, this is the wrong place.
If you’ve felt the weight of what matters, and want language sharp enough to hold it—
Welcome.