• Ethical justifiable imperfection – Human physical body

The symbol designates human ethical “imperfections” which must not be important. Among such imperfections, there are slight verbal and physical (more rarely) offences committed in childhood. Most importantly, these mistakes must be acknowledged and not be reiterated, otherwise they would result in another kind of moral negativity, represented by a specific symbolic group.

These imperfections are inevitable, due to the fact that they are implicit in the human nature. In fact, since human beings are limited creatures, it is clear that they can never be perfect at the divine level. These limitations, in particular, are inferred from the consideration of the limited human material body. Since the latter is subject to change because of the passing of time and its subsequent material nature, the human body can never be perfect. Indeed, only unchangeable entities such as God (that is not subject to the passing of time) are both spiritual (non – material) and perfect. In virtue of this, the symbol of slash has come to signify “human physical body”. In addition, the latter must be specified as “flesh and blood”. Concerning the graphic form of the symbol, it must be said that this sort of slash conveys the idea of “deviation from truth or moral positivity”.

• Regression / Weakening

The left arrow conveys the ideas of regression, lack of confidence and weakening. Starting from the meanings of its opposite, which are conveyed by the right arrow (progression, emphasis or reinforcement), one may easily understand the concept expressed by the left arrow. As it can be noticed, the two arrows are completely opposite in meaning.

• Everyday life moral negativity

It is the symbol of the ethical negativity in the context of everyday life. It is very important to keep in mind that the circle symbol does not include “murder” or “attempted murder” within its meanings. So let us list very briefly the main meanings of this symbol: a) ideology according to which all kinds of goals (whether they are considered important in our life or not) are to be fulfilled, at any cost, even through violence; b) continuing depressing mood; c) persecutions which consist of repeated offences against specific individuals.

Very often, “strong verbal offences” express the proper meaning of the symbol. More rarely may physical violence be included among its meanings. Finally, it is important to explain the connection between the graphic form of the symbol and its proper meaning: the circle graphically represents the concept of cyclical repetition which is the basic idea of the symbol.

• Moral negativity throughout history

It was the first symbol to be deeply analyzed from a philosophical point of view. Basically, this symbol refers to a kind of human moral negativity that, according to my philosophy, is seen as the historical and dominant feature of mankind. In particular, there are three kinds of such a moral negativity : murder, attempted murder and rape. These kinds of evil are considered historically dominant because they have been dominating the entire human history. Not only does the attribute “dominant” refer to the prominent influence of evil throughout all human history, but it does have a specific nuance : it also defines the most extreme form of human evil.

Besides the basic idea of moral negativity throughout history, the symbol also encompasses secondary meanings. In particular, it includes all the meanings related to those symbols belonging to my system expressing minor kinds of moral negativity (i.e. the circle, the down arrow and the symbol of justification of evil), except the one referring to ethical justifiable mistakes.

Seldom is the evil coming from diseases and natural calamities embodied within the meaning of the symbol.

• Space – Matter – Physical and ethical attraction

First of all, the original meaning of this symbol was “space”, intended as a distinctive feature of human beings. More in detail, I here refer to the three-dimensional space, based upon length, height and depth.

Afterwards, the symbol acquired the meaning of “physical matter”, intended in a negative sense. Starting from this negative acceptation, the downward arrow came to express the ideas of “materialism” and “opportunism”, even though the latter is expressed more clearly by another symbol. It must be said that “materialism” refers also to that ideology according to which all goals (whether they are positive or negative) are to be fulfilled at any cost, even through violence.

Another important facet to be taken into account is the “mechanistic movement of gravitational force”. This expression is to be analyzed from an ethical point of view as well as from a physical one. Concerning the first interpretation, the expression refers to the attractive force exerted by evil on human beings whereas in the second case we are talking about the attractive gravitational force exerted by the Earth on the material objects which are within it. As it can be seen, the down arrow symbolizes such an attractive movement.

• Justification of ethically positive goals obtained through violence

The symbol designates the justification of positive goals obtained through negative means. To be more precise, this negative symbol consists of two negative symbols which are unified through the hyphen, that is to say the symbol of moral negativity throughout history and that of materialism. Along with other eight symbols of the philosophical system, the symbol is included among the symbolic fusions.

In this case, as it can be seen, the construct according to which goals are to be fulfilled even through violence is reinforced by the negative philosophical structure that is implicit in the symbol of moral negativity throughout history. As a consequence, the symbol acquired a strong ideological significance. Afterwards, the symbol was also to signify “tyranny” and “despotism” of adults in the educational context.