JOURNEY IN BEING
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• FOUNDATION

  • Ambition

    • They came to see the world as though it were new!

  • The narrative

  • Journey

  • Being

    • Meaning of ‘being.’ Existence

    • Meaning in general

    • A Variety of being is ever open to discovery and realization

    • Concepts

    • The system of concepts

    • On Definition

    • Further analysis of ‘being’ and of ‘existence’

    • On analysis and analytic philosophy

  • Metaphysics: Theory of Being

    • Five central concepts

    • Immanence of law, pattern and Form

    • The fact of Being

    • Theory of Being. First proof of the ‘fundamental principle’ of the Theory of Being

    • The Void and elimination of substance

    • Form. Mechanisms of emergence. Normal mechanisms

    • ‘Derivations’ from the Theory of Being

    • Power and knowledge

  • The Object

    • Knowledge as knowledge-of the entity

    • Identity and faithfulness

    • The nature of the object

    • The transcendental argument

    • Transcendental meaning of faithfulness

    • Truth

    • Absolute objects

    • The absolute character of abstract objects and certain simple objects

    • Identity

    • Sufficient faithfulness and full faithfulness

    • The adequacy of sufficient faithfulness

    • Knowledge and action

    • The Real

    • Universals

    • Ethics and objectivity

  • Logic

    • Preliminary discussion. Necessary and contingent modes of establishing truth

    • Introduction to induction and science

    • Hypothetical versus factual interpretation of (scientific) theories

    • An example: the Theory of Evolution

    • Theory. In a most significant use of the word, theories –especially scientific theories– are factual

    • Fact. Facts stand only in relation to perspective or pattern. Facts also partake of pattern. Full perception of Fact and Theory require all elements of the psyche

    • Necessary facts

    • Nature of induction

    • Introduction to deduction

    • Mathematics

    • A Platonic view of Being without a distinct Platonic world

    • Induction and deduction

    • The concept of Logic

    • Logic (Logic) is universal law. Metaphysics and Logic are identical

    • In Logic as the Theory of Possibility, logic and contingent law merge. This suggests the following formulation: Logic is the constitutive form of Being

    • Second proof of the ‘fundamental principle’ of the Theory of Being

    • Logics

  • Mind

    • The concept of Matter does not exclude mind. Indefiniteness of the common concepts of mind and matter

    • Mind. Mind versus manifestations and particular cases of mind

    • Originality

    • Consciousness

    • Morals and metaphysics

  • Cosmology

    • General cosmology

    • Mechanism. Necessity of indeterminism. Probability of incremental change

    • Normal mechanism: incremental change

    • Further results in general cosmology. Annihilation. Recurrence and Karma. Recurrence and Identity. Fact, fiction and the unending Variety of being. Scripture and truth. The nature of death. Creation. God. Interaction of the elements of being. Ghosts and ghost cosmological systems. There are no distinct universes

    • Time and space

    • Dominant versus multiple times and relative strength of interaction

    • Mind as a cosmological object

    • Status of substance as locally or practically fundamental

    • Atomism

    • Two divides in the evolution of the local cosmological system

  • Human being

    • Interest to this narrative of the nature of human being

    • Organization of the section

    • The organism. Microscopic and macroscopic elements. Life and mind

    • The nature of Human being

    • Freud, determinism and the unconscious

    • Function. Feeling. Integration of the ‘elements’ of Mind. Free and bound icons and symbols

    • Experience, attitude and action?

    • Intuition. The categories of intuition

    • Growth, personality and commitments

    • Atman. The end of growth

    • Language

    • Exceptional achievement and disorder

  • Morals and society

    • Sources of morals

    • Some kinds of Morals

    • What is ethics?

    • Ethics as elements of and relations among the elements of (human) freedom

    • Education. The Institutions of culture and enculturation

    • Politics

    • Economics

    • Morals, economics and politics

    • Individual versus group interest. The status of ‘Political Realism’

    • Interaction of Knowledge and Value

    • War and peace

  • Ethics and objectivity

  • Action and politics

    • Charisma

  • Civilization and history

  • The Highest Ideal

  • Faith

    • Significance of faith. Faith and doubt

    • Faith and secularism

    • Meaning (literal and non-literal) and non-meaning functions of faith

    • The nature of Faith. Its place in the modern world

    • What are the possibilities for the concept of Religion?

    • Limits to faith and secularism have sources in polarization

    • Bridging. Resolution of the tensions is not given

• JOURNEY IN BEING

  • Journey

    • Inspiration

    • Attachment and burden

    • Paradigm and perspective

    • The nature of Being became further revealed in clarifying and conceptualizing absence of being

    • Individual and All Being (may) merge in the journey

    • The personal voice and the impersonal

  • Principles of thought

    • Criticism and construction

    • Reflexivity

    • Attention to Meaning

    • Integration of the psyche

    • Thought and action

  • Understanding and Transformation

  • Philosophy and Metaphysics

    • Analytic Philosophy

    • Continental Philosophy

    • In modern philosophy – especially academic philosophy, philosophy as it is possible and necessary to possibility and fullness has been abandoned

    • Philosophy is the discipline whose limits are the outer limits of Being and Understanding

    • Metaphysics is the discipline whose concern is the outer limits of Being

  • Problems in Metaphysics

    • Problems of metaphysics addressed and resolved in this narrative

    • Problems in metaphysics – continued. A catalog of classical, scholastic, modern and recent issues. Indian metaphysics

  • A System of Understanding

  • History of Transformation

    • Traditional systems

    • States of psychic sensitivity (also called alternative states)

  • Transformation. Bases and Theory

    • Virtual and actual transformations

    • Growth

    • Theory

    • Dynamics of Being

  • System of experiments

    • Understanding

    • Transformation

    • Journey

    • Society. Charisma and influence

    • Arching from the present to the ultimate

  • Transformation so far. Designs

    • Universal knowledge

    • Personality and influence

    • Arching from the immediate to the ultimate

  • Further investigation

    • General

    • Specific topics

  • The Future

    • The fist objective is a continuation of the path so far

    • The second objective would be the experience of a time of Being over becoming, of perception over thought

  • System of concepts

    • Foundation

    • Being

    • Metaphysics

    • The Object

    • Logic

    • Cosmology

    • Mind

    • Human being

    • Morals

    • Faith

    • Journey

    • Names

  • The Author