Cognitive Powers are the developable capacities of knowing and acting through which conscious, self-determined freedom becomes possible.
192 Steps to Freedom
24 Attitudes of Individuality
Developable orientations that prepare the individual for freedom, truth, and independent knowing and acting.
84 Powers of Free Knowing — Chapters 1–7
Developable capacities for knowing reality independently.
84 Powers of Free Action — Chapters 8–14
Developable capacities for acting from consciously known, self-determined grounds.
Together, these form the 192 Powers of Freedom—developable capacities through which individuality, knowing, and action become increasingly self-determined.
Attitude → Free Knowing → Free Action → Ethical Individualism
Questioned Action
Cognitive Power — Questioned Action: Develop the ability to bring an intended or completed action into conscious examination, asking what determines it and whether the experienced sense of freedom corresponds to actual freedom.
Cognitive Powers of Questioned Action
Question Freedom:
Materialist 1.1 Question Reasons
Spiritist 1.2 Question Desire
Realist 1.3 Question One's Nature
Idealist 1.4 Question Character
Mathematist 1.5 Question Knowledge Of Motive
Rationalist 1.6 Question Rational Necessity
Psychist 1.7 Question Strongest Motive
Pneumatist 1.8 Question Hidden Causes
Monadist 1.9 Question Origin Of Reason
Dynamist 1.10 Question Emotional Drives
Phenomenalist 1.11 Question Love
Sensationalist 1.12 Question Perception
