The Jameel Doctrine: Humanity by Ethics — Domination by Power

Note: A minor verse-order typographical error in an earlier draft has been corrected in this version and an updated abstract to reflect the current scholarly status. This is now the definitive version of The Jameel Doctrine This paper advances a civilisational theory — the Jameel Doctrine—grounded in the hypothesis that humanity, in order to be given the form of reality, was carved through the terminology of ethics, but the dominance of power mostly proves to be the prelude to tyranny. Employing the methodological principle of ceteris paribus, the theory isolates the relationship between ethics and power as its central variable and traces its operation across six historical pillars: the formation of ethics as the primal foundation of humanity; the legitimate use of power subordinated to ethics; the dominance of power as precursor to tyranny; the lesson of the French Revolution; the post-1945 architecture of institutionalized dominance; and the contemporary struggle between ethics and Artificial Intelligence in the formation of the Architect Generation. The theory introduces an original and falsifiable three-circle criterion for distinguishing genuine ethics from the performance of power: where religious, philosophical, and social traditions converge independently in their recognition of an individual's character, that convergence constitutes ethics; where only one circle recognises, that is power. The conclusion argues that the placement of the Architect Generation within AI-enabled structures of dominance without prior ethical formation constitutes the most urgent civilisational crisis of the present moment. Keywords: Ethics, Power, Tyranny, Artificial Intelligence, Architect Generation, Civilisational Theory, Three-Circle Criterion, Jameel Doctrine, Just War, Banality of Evil, Ceteris Paribus, Universal Ethics Editorial Context: This work is permanently archived on Zenodo (CERN) as an independent scholarly contribution. Related works by the same author —