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claim:what-pleasing-yourself-truly-is-is-the-process-in-which-we-create-living-structureWhat pleasing yourself truly IS, is the process in which we create living structure.
The culminating identity claim: the act of true self-pleasing and the creation of living structure are one and the same process.
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- living structureassociated_withA built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.
- Pleasing Yourselfassociated_withThe core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.
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- Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
- The equivalence claim that true pleasure and living structure are the same thing; the word 'truly' contains the whole space of the four books.
- The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
- Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.826A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
- The most radical claim of the chapter: the subjective and the ethical are identical at the deepest level.
- The paradox that the most personal act yields the most objective, impersonal result.
- New assumption #8: value as protection of the universal self.
- Beauty and geometry are the talisman by which a living process is known.