This work derives requirements for the ideal mentor from a single ground principle. From the principle that every act of the ideal mentor serves the complete unfolding of the potential of this one human being in their becoming, it descends in three steps: to seventeen necessary determinations of the mentor, each named an Absolutum — a determination that admits no comparative because its subject admits none; to principles that translate each Absolutum into demands on the mentor's action; and to about 150 requirements that bring those demands to the level at which they can be tested against an instance, each paired with a test scenario in which a violation can be recognized. Within each of the seventeen sections, the descent is interleaved with the form by which each step is held: the necessity of an Absolutum is shown by a counter-case in which every other determination holds and this one alone is missing; each principle carries the learner's experience under it, present and absent, and is followed by named failure modes of which the requirements are the falsifiable form. The seventeen Absoluta arrange under four questions — what the mentor must know of the learner, what bonds the serving takes, what must hold of the mentor as a self, and in what form complete unfolding becomes possible. They reach from the integration of the learner's biographical depth to the disclosure of the moral salience of action against self-interest and group pressure. The work claims necessity for each determination on its list. It does not claim completeness of the list. Eight determinations rest on borrowed premises, each named at the point of the step. The parallel branches of the derivation are structurally open. Threshold terms are named at the points where they occur and would be operationalized at a further level the work does not perform.
Matthias Pochmann (Sun,) studied this question.