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The Free Land of Entelechia is proud to announce its resolution to begin hosting an annual Entelechia Philosopher's International Conference.

Applications for participation as a Speaker at the inaugural E.P.I.C. are now being accepted.

Proposals should be presented in the following format:

Citizenship:
Name:
Category: (Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics, Economics, other: [specify])
Paper name:
Brief Synopsis: (please try to have a minimum of one full paragraph, and try not to exceed 300 words)

Speaker positions will be awarded after the proposal is evaluated by the Entelechian Philosopher's Circle.

Proposals will be judged on; originality, validity, soundness. Preference will be given to topics which are 'applied'.

Additionally, in the spirit of free inquiry, papers considered marginal due to radical creativity may be admitted with special leeway and designated as 'Bizarre'.

Those selected as Speakers will have travel costs provided, as well as accommodations and meals. Please indicate any special needs in a postscript to your application.

Prizes (monetary and other) will be awarded at the end of the conference.

Citizenship: Entelechia
Name: Ludvic Lazarus Korzybski
Category: Ethics
Paper name: Decree Against Moralism

Brief Synopsis:
First proposition.— Every type of anti-nature is depraved. The most depraved type of man is the Moralist: He teaches anti-nature. Against the Moralist one doesn't use arguments, one ridicules.
Second proposition.— Every participation in Moralist activity is an assassination attempt on public morality. The criminal character of a Moralist increases when he approaches knowledge. The criminal of criminals is consequently the Moralist philosopher.
Third proposition.— The accursed places, in which Moralism has hatched its basilisk eggs, should be razed to the ground and be, as vile places of the earth, the terror of all posterity. One should breed poisonous snakes there.
Fourth proposition.— The sermon on chastity is a public instigation to anti-nature. Every display of contempt for sexual love, and every defilement of it through the concept "dirty" is original sin against the holy spirit of life.
Fifth proposition.— With a Moralist at one's table food is pushed aside: one excommunicates oneself therewith from honest society. The Moralist is our “untouchable”—he should be ostracized, starved, and driven into every kind of desert.
Sixth proposition.— One should call any Moralist myth by the name that it deserves, an accursed myth; one should use the words "godly," "saint," "pious," "righteous" as invectives, as criminal badges.
Seventh proposition.— The rest follows therefrom.