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An onto-theological change also entails a change in needs, wants, values: the practical. Therefore, the practical is always devotional: it enacts devotion to the onto-theological, not in a way that the ‘devout’ would usually call religious, but in a way that appeals to—shows deference to—the onto-theological as guiding principle. (Which doesn’t rule out resistance to the principle.)
Of course, the onto-theological isn’t a principle. Even with the One, the question of the onto-theological is never settled, nor reduced to one. There are always schisms, re-interpretations, struggles, alternate paths. Instead of calling it a principle, it may be best to call it ‘the onto-theological,’ where the singular isn’t intended to denote a singular unified ‘thing.’