The way of being

Anil Mitra, Copyright © March 15,2021. Revised April 13, 2021.

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Contents

1	Prologue

prologue

the way and its origin in the world

quest

sources

worldview

aim

2	The world

limitless being

being

experience

beings

metaphysics

cosmology

3	The way

the immediate and the ultimate as one

aim of being

realizing

paths

resources

4	Epilogue

living in the world

return

being in the world

The way of being

this document is for 2021; the plan is to use the structure for bare content and leave a skeleton here

mottos

prologue > quest = ?
aim = aim of the way = aim of being

the world = introduce path / realization

epilogue = expand

Prologue

to realize the ultimate in and from the immediate
informal introduction to the way
and its origin in the world

living

human world

satisfaction

contentment and seeking

enjoyment

pleasure and pain

progress

direction and indirection

coherence

conflict and cooperation

endeavor

multidimensional

a variety of aims and endeavors, human and other

value continuum

negative to positive

commitment continuum

absent to intense

quest continuum

seeking to conservative

coherence continuum

negative to positive

an ideal

a true worldview would give best coherence without suppressing multidimensionality

sources

origins of the way

resources

world

history

received culture

experience

the individual

worldview

why

choice

all choice is influenced by perspective—typically a mix of truth and error, the explicit and the tacit; an explicit view may enhance awareness, truth, and wholeness

resource

gives realism and closure to understanding and action, meaning and coherence to the variety of human endeavors

informs us as to what is real, what possible, what feasible, what worthwhile

how

reason

means of effective understanding and action

concept formation and criticism—direct and reflexive, implementation in action, review, learning

no a priori

in an extended meaning of the a priori

abstraction

knowledge

value

agency

reflexivity

level 0—direct

level 1—of paradigms of concept formation and criticism

level 2—interaction of all elements of process, sought efficiently

the view

the fundamental principle of metaphysics

the universe and the individual are limitless—the greatest possible

intension or meaning—the kind of possibility must be logical, for which our logics are examples corresponding to some modes of expression

extension or cosmology—all logical concepts are realized; limited individuals realize the limitless

is this hubris

it is true

it is consistent with experience (and science), for our experience is among the possible, but only part of it, for beyond (and underneath) our experience, cannot be contradicted by our experience

it is not a promotion of any limited form

what it says in depth is closed

breadth is infinitely open as long as we are limited

it is the end of philosophy (or science) as foundational of our being

and the beginning of action

the real metaphysics

this principle joins to what is valid in (human) knowledge to constitute the real metaphysics with a perfect aspect in the fundamental principle…

and a pragmatic aspect in reason and the range of human knowledge (from the view of limitlessness, for limited beings the pragmatic is perfect in being the best)

significance

goes limitlessly beyond standard secular and transsecular views in meaning, significance, extension of the universe and the individual

proof; consistency with what is valid in all paradigms, knowledge, and interpretations of experience; doubt; alternate attitudes

on meanings

in going beyond limited notions of experience, we must go beyond and adjust received meanings and system meaning

aim of the way

shared and reasoned discovery and realization of the ultimate in and from the immediate

the aim of the way will be found to be the aim of being

enjoyment

appreciation of a world that has contentment and dissatisfaction, conflict and cooperation, self and other, success and striving, pleasure and pain, reason and chaos

The world

to know the world

being

a being is that which is; being is the characteristic of beings as beings.

why

foundation without infinite regress, coherentism, or pitfalls substance

frame for understanding and action

does not refer to particular or special beings or kinds—which enables founding and framing them

as will be seen, enables objectivity without relinquishing significance via closure in depth but ever openness in breadth—i.e., via ‘philosophical algebra’

how

ontology—the study of being

abstraction

abstraction enables perfect knowledge

a being is that which may be validly known

why knowability—knowability and its conceptual extensions to the root of being

it will be seen that a being is that which is capable of giving and receiving cause or effect

a being is that which is capable of effect or cause on itself or other (and as will be seen capable of effect on experience and being known)

thus, relation is the essence of being and knowability is one side of the essence of relation (and the other side is action)

why knowability? concept of knowability, its conceptual extensions

… to the ‘root’ of being

abstracts

will provide some examples—as examples to be used, and as a preliminary showing of the power of the concept of being

reasons

a reason is that which entails a (state of) being

a state may be a quality of a being, particularly its existence

a reason may be a fact that obtains or a state of being

necessary reason

possible reason

if the entailment is necessary (i.e., certain), possible (not ruled out), or probable (likely), the reason is, correspondingly, necessary, possible, or probable

‘cause’ is another term for reason

power

power is material cause and effect, the action of a being on self or other, whose presence vs absence makes a difference

the being that has no power, self or other, does not exist

create

to materially cause the existence of a being

creator

being that creates (a being)

self-creation

impossible, for it presumes simultaneous existence and non-existence

exception—the void, for, as will be seen, the void is the being for which existence and non-existence (non-manifestation) are the same

experience

use awareness… consciousness?

awareness in all its forms, material through ultimate

there is experience, for without it our presence to the world would not even be illusory

why

we do not transcend experience for its measure is the same; the world is effectively the world of experience

it is the place of all significance

though not the source of all significance

the being affects no experience is effectively non-existent

the dual use of experience and being (world) provides a language that speaks at once to our sense of meaning and of the real

being is essentially experiential; heuristic—(i) matter, such as it is, cannot exclude the primitive of experience from its primitive level (iii) while the primitive level is not as our experience is, it must be primitively experiential and relational (iv) being is essentially experiential (and this informal heuristic is suggestive but deficient as demonstration; clear meanings and demonstration are given later)

the world is primitively experiential; while this seems to contradict whatever may be true in world as form and matter and objective, it is not—and it will turn out that ‘world as matter’ fits nicely into ‘world as experiential’, while the latter provides a framework for a greater world

experience is relational

there is ‘experience of’ and ‘the experienced’ (in pure experience, the experienced is potential but not null); concept, object, sign, language, meaning, and knowledge

experience is recursive

there is experience of experience

therefore, that there is experience is known

dimensions

modes

experience is attitudinal-active; bifurcates as attitudinal and active; there is no strictly pure case, for there is always potential relation to the world

experience is relational

functions

or dimensions of experience—i.e., ‘experience’ – action (and ‘pure’), inner – outer, state – function – recall…

world

experience and its interpretations

…

develop this

the next and a crucial point follows from the development

being experiential and relational

beings

grouping

particular vs kind

kinds

form

and formation

reasons

necessary, possible, likely

absolute

monadic

power

dyadic, perhaps polyadic

cause, effect

creation

object

identities

abstracts

value

values as real

wholes

parts

nil

experiential

elemental

through feeling, cognitive, agentive, through…

Brahman

particular beings

universe

creator

part

cosmos

creation

stable

essence

pattern

law

limit

individual

occurs in more than one place; finalize

the void

the void is a being

metaphysics

existence of the void

fundamental principle

possibility

real metaphysics

reason

the concept of reason

doubt

attitudes

interpretations

… of experience

revisited and ‘finalized’

functions

of experience, the

revisited, grounded in cosmology and logic, finalized

cosmology of identity

the ultimate

and the individual

individuals

proximately limited experiential beings

death

real but not absolute

realization

path

enjoyment

pleasure

pain

value

intersection of value and being (previously: values are beings)

ethics

aesthetics

intersections of ethics and aesthetics

world

interpretations

revisited

dimensions of being

could be placed in cosmology; is here because it is ‘vertical’ first and ‘horizontal’ second

descriptive metaphysics

here? finalize placement

logic of the problems of metaphysics

classical through current problems of metaphysics

the logic

the descriptive metaphysics

emphasize those problems not already treated

cosmology

part of metaphysics

dimensions of being could be placed here

description of the universe and its forms or patterns

form includes formation

patterns allow extrapolation, prediction

general cosmology

logical

logical cosmology is general cosmology

philosophical

method

‘reason’

paradigms

paradigms are part of reason but are mentioned explicitly here because their use is significant

determinism

part determines whole

is that not what a parrern is?

change color or bulleting of Style Definition

… and indeterminism; kinds of determinism; absolute determinism and absolute indeterminism

block universe

as perspective or description rather than feature of the real

relative nature of the determined

and merging of identities

cosmology of form

form and formation

method

method for general cosmology

real metaphysics, received and reasoned paradigm

reason—review and extension

our cosmos

‘physical cosmology’

method

method for general cosmology and cosmology of form

methods of physical cosmology

astronomy

theoretical physics

cosmological modeling

cosmological realms

origins and reasons… galaxies… solar systems… planets… life and its creation and origins

The way

realizing the ultimate
the immediate and the ultimate as one

aim of being

the aim of being is the aim of the way

realizing

the way and its means

reason

also considered above

received ways

integration

of reason and received ways

paths

also considered above; here the aim is practical, detailed, to share rather than to merely inform or instruct

principles

template design

immediate to universal

all activities and dimensions of being

adaptable to a range of circumstances

individuals to civilization

templates

dedication and affirmation

everyday

universal

world problems and opportunities

world problems and opportunities.html (for details, see Journey in Being-detail.html)

resources

database of concepts

plan

the way

life

death

visioning life, death, and their resoltion

site

texts

continuous text

historical integration

cyclical

flesh out from outlines…

Epilogue

from the way to the world

return

being in the world

one world

the immediate and the ultimate are one

sharing

reason

discovery and action

feeling and cognition

value and object

critical and creative

no a priori