Dependency as Ontology: Eastern Orthodox Reflections on Disability, Dependency, and Care
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
One of the fundamental hurdles for both Christian theology and medical ethics is characterizing disability as an aspect of human experience rather than a deviation from it. Anthropologies that anticipate a fixed subject articulate disability through the lens of pathology, alienating disabled experiences from what it means to be human. Pulling from the social theory of disability, I argue that wellbeing in Eastern Orthodox theology is characterized not by independent performative attainment but through mediated dependency. Eastern Orthodox theological anthropology organizes human dependency around passibility, an innate vulnerability that includes the ability to be acted upon as well as to suffer. Human nature comes packaged with material and social contingency. Christ’s passibility provides a moral framework through which extended states of dependency do not derive from sin or failure but rather serve as an example of quintessential human nature. Ontological dependency reframes persistent need, inviting persons who have been underserved and undervalued into a more inclusive model of human nature.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it