UP TO Project
The UP TO Project is provided by Dr. Charles Tandy and is introduced in this chapter release: File:UP-TO Project.pdf
Summary:
My “UP-TO” proposal is meant to be a general outline or approach to achieve world peace, freedom, and prosperity. If “the devil is in the details,” I leave such details to those more qualified than I. Nevertheless I have to use words even to suggest the general proposal such as it is. These words may be easily misunderstood. Thus herewith below a preliminary note on terminology. (I suggest consulting The Law of Peoples by John Rawls if one wishes to attempt to improve on the terminology – i.e., the meaning of “peoples” and “well-ordered peoples”.)
The UP proposal is a proposal for a terrestrial Union of Peoples Well-ordered. On today’s Earth, the People of China and the People of Russia are NOT well-ordered – but the EU Peoples and the North America Peoples, among many others, do have the actual substance of cultural norms and working mechanisms (rather than the mere form of words or documents or elections) that considerably support the rights of persons and that considerably tend to prevent war among such like-minded wellordered peoples. Reminiscent of Kant, this is sometimes referred to by today’s political scientists as the world’s “zone of peace.”
The TO proposal is a proposal for an extraterrestrial Treaty Organization Acting for a Better Cosmos. Before I explain the TO proposal in more detail, let me again point out that although the UP and the TO are separate entities with separate terrestrial/extraterrestrial functions, they are nevertheless expected, with help from the EU and others, to be birthed on the same date and to be perpetually on speaking terms with each other. Signatories of peoples to the (terrestrial) UP are members of the UP Voting Council; signatories of peoples to the (extraterrestrial) TO are members of the UP Advisory Council. Likewise, signatories of peoples to the (extraterrestrial) TO are members of the TO Voting Council; signatories of peoples to the (terrestrial) UP are members of the TO Advisory Council. Note that the People of China and the People of Russia may indeed be founding (voting) members of TO but not of UP; on the one hand, they are peoples – on the other hand, they are not yet well-ordered. (At some point in time in the 21st century, perhaps China and Russia will become well-ordered.) Previously above I have explained the “Union of Peoples Well-ordered” (UP) idea. Now I present the TO (“Treaty Organization Acting for a Better Cosmos”) part of the UP-TO proposal. 4 I believe that both the UP and TO ideas are desirable and feasible for today’s world, even more so if implemented together (UP-TO). These two Concerts, acting more or less in concert, may have historically unusual (“doubly-synergistic”) abilities to transmute our outmoded world into a “transcivilization” of peaceful prosperous societies.