Secular Heckler's Notebook

Over the years, I have watched many of the Crash Course videos on government and American History, and the other day I found that they have a series on philosophy. Philosophy is a subject area that I need to review in the research of dialectics for my treatise on social constructionism and knowledge classification.  The highlight so far, after twenty of the forty-seven videos, is a maxim that was displayed.  I am very certain that the motive behind my commitment to writing the treatises has been to ensure that Order and Justice are properly established. I jumped to a video title that I just could not resist, because it has one of my keywords: "Categorical Imperatives." I have to know what is being discussed in "categories."  As it turned out, the discussion is about morality, and the categorical imperatives presented are two of a four-element system of secular morality. I didn't know there was such a formulation. And there are others.  I have read some things ab...