Philocracy is a system of conscious organization. It is the assumption that what you love and understand you will also manage well. Philocracy assigns responsibility only within each person's sphere of wisdom - the area in which they can demonstrate conscious love.

As a society we love to evaluate mental and physical skills like cooking, running, intelligence and music yet when it comes to maturity we resist evaluation assuming that only external qualities can be assessed objectively. We therefore must also assume, despite all evidence to the contrary, that maturity automatically follows physical age and that every adult in body is also mature. We make it mandatory to measure the math level of third graders but not the maturity and wisdom of our leaders...

Philocracy is a choice to assign power to those who demonstrate conscious love for what they govern. By evaluating what someone is capable of seeing and caring for we can easily determine their sphere of wisdom. If you don't enjoy children, you should not teach kindergarten and if you can't "see" trees, you should not manage nature. If you don't love diversity, you should not have international power and if you do not understand people, you should not practice justice.