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OUTLINES
First Things. 1
The journey—its nature and aims. 1… The divisions and their
relationships. 1
Theory of Being. 1
Being. 1… Metaphysics. 2… Objects. 2… Meaning. 2… Logic. 3… Mind. 3… Cosmology. 4
Human World. 5
Introduction, method and aims. 5… Human being. 6… Social world. 7… War and peace. 7… Civilization and history. 7… The highest ideal 8… Faith. 8
The Idea of a Journey. 8
Ambition. 8… Journey. 9… Story. 9
Ideas. 9
Principles of thought and transformation. 9… Philosophy and metaphysics. 10… Modern and recent philosophy. 10… Problems of metaphysics. 10… A system of human knowledge. 10
Transformation. 10
Introduction. 10… History of transformation. 10… Basis and theory of transformation. 11… System of experiments. 11… Transformation so far. Design for
the near future. 11
The future. 11
Refining the ideas. 11… The way ahead. 12
Index of Ideas and Names. 12
The Author 12
First Things
Journey
The narrative
Aims
Theory of
Being
Preliminary
What is Theory of being?
Aims
Significance of Theory
of being in general
Significance of Theory
of being to the journey (narrative)
Outline of Theory of
being
Why being?
What is being?
First comments on meaning
Global and local modes of
description
The forms of experience
What has being?
See section, Metaphysics—new
outline of Metaphysics
for some details
A Metaphysics of Immanence
Intrinsic aims
Develop a foundation
Review metaphysics and
philosophy in light of the Metaphysics of immanence
See section, Objects—essentials of update of Objects for details
The problem of the object.
Conceptualization in terms of concept and object
Form
Abstract objects
Idea. Form as generic abstract object
What exists—categories of objects
Moral
What exists—particular
objects
Object and objective
What exists—abstract
objects
What exists—applications
Aims
Meaning in general (from 06 version)
Sense and reference
The lexical theory and
atomism
Use and
holism—meaning is a system within and of the world
On Definition (from 06 version)
The
possibility of precise meaning in certain contexts
See section, Logic—essentials
of update of Logic
for details
Motivation
Analysis
Introduction
Aims
To note that the Metaphysics
of Immanence suggests an ultimate concept of Logic as the theory of
descriptions of the universe i.e. of the actual or, equivalently, of the
possible
To develop criteria for
Logic to be a good and ultimate realization of logic; and to show that Logic satisfies the criteria:
To develop the nature of
Logic and consequences of its character
To apply the concept of
Logic to a variety of special topics
Logic as the theory of
valid descriptions
Traditional deductive logic, reference and
paradox
Induction as good but not necessary inference
See section, Mind—essentials of
update of Mind for
details
Introduction (06?)
Foundation
A first aim is to understand
and develop the meaning and nature of mind… the
connection of (meanings of) mind and self… and
the relation of mind and world
The fundamental notion of
mind from the ideas of experience and object as developed in the Metaphysics of
immanence
Reflections on mind from
reflections on the metaphysics of substance
Reflections on mind from the
absolute indeterminism-necessity of structure of the Metaphysics of immanence,
from genesis and evolution of life, and from the ability of human being to make
essential (novel) change—regardless of magnitude
A subsidiary aim is to
analyze distinctions of mind and matter and motives to regard the distinction
as categorial
A second aim, included in
the first but of especial importance, emphasizes study of relationships between
organism and world
A further aim is to study
certain central aspects of mind—for intrinsic interest and because they
illuminate the nature of mind and its study:
Development of the study of
mind
Free will… and related freedoms
Originality (06)
Consciousness—and the unconsciousness
Attributes
Human mind
Psychology
Another aim concerns the
study of psychology
See section, Cosmology—essentials
of update of Cosmology
for details (the additional details for this section are minimal)
Aims
To develop cosmology as the Theory
of variety of being and to note that knowledge of the variety must be implicit
To develop some results in
general cosmology
To characterize the variety
of being
To study the following kinds
and aspects of cosmology
General / local
Mechanism / explanation
Variety / origins
Causation / determinism
Mind
Time and space
Substance and atomism
Local cosmology / divides
Anthropic principle
Other topics
To combine with Logic and
quantum mechanics
To estimate the feasible and
the desirable
To develop implications of
the cosmology for some common cosmologies and their relations
General cosmology (06)
…general versus local cosmology
Further results in general
cosmology—a miscellany. Annihilation. Recurrence and Karma. Recurrence and
Identity. Significance in being. Fact, fiction and the unending Variety of
being. Scripture and truth. The nature of death. Creation. God. The idea of
self-creation. Interaction of the elements of Being. Ghosts and ghost
cosmological systems. There are no distinct universes. The Limit of imagination (06)
The variety of being
Mechanism and explanation.
Origins
Mechanism. Necessity of indeterminism. Probability of incremental change (06)
Normal mechanism: incremental change (06)
Causation and determinism
Mind as a cosmological
object (06)
Time and space (06)
Dominant versus multiple
times and relative strength of interaction (06)
Status of substance as
locally or practically fundamental (06)
Atomism (06)
Local cosmology
Two Divides in the
evolution of the local cosmological system (06)
Anthropic principle
Human World
Framework: Metaphysics
Framework: Mind
Method
Generality of the methods
Avoidance of substance
thinking
Sources for study
Human World
Human being
Social world
War and peace
Civilization and history
Highest ideal
Faith
Aims—functions
of an understanding of the Human world in the narrative
Foundation. Theory of being
The individual: organism and
psyche… or organism-psyche
Groups
The institutions and the
dynamics
Some general assertions
regarding the forms of societies
The nature of Human being
Interest to the narrative
Human freedoms
The spark
The free concept
Originality or creativity
Freedom of the will
Some comments on freedom of
the will
The organism
Psychology: introduction
Experience, Attitude
and Action?
Function. Derivation from the character of organism
and world (universe)
Function. Feeling. Integration
of the ‘elements’ of Mind. Icon and symbol: free and bound
The intuition and the
categories of intuition
The unconscious
Growth, personality and
commitments. Atman
Psychoanalysis, determinism
and the unconscious
Introduce Dynamics
Growth, personality and
commitments. Atman
Love
Love
Language
Some comments on language
Achievement and disorder
The institution of culture
Education. The Institutions
of culture and enculturation
Social groups
Morals and their sources
Small groups
Human freedoms
Some kinds of Morals
What is ethics?
Ethics as elements of and
relations among the elements of (human) freedom
Economics
Politics
Action and politics
Charisma and action
Morals, economics and
politics
Individual versus group
interest. The status of ‘Political Realism’
Interaction of Knowledge and
Value
Law
Dynamics
Interactivity of problems
of value. War and peace as a start
Illustration of ethics
Illustration of
interactivity of ethics, politics and economics
Illustration of the
emptiness of examples that are contrived or extracted from context
Metaphors for civilization
The matrix of civilizations
in the universe
‘History’ as the form of
the matrix
Relation to conclusions
from the local cosmology e.g. as in The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, John
D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, 1986
The classical ideals
The highest ideal includes the
foregoing but is completed by the thought that
The highest ideal includes
the examination of ideals and search for the highest ideal
Introduction
Aims primarily regarding the
role of faith and religion
Significance of faith. Faith
and doubt
Faith and secularism
The nomads
The concept of faith
The concept of religion
The nature of Faith. Its
place in the modern world
Meaning (literal and
non-literal) and non-meaning functions of faith
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
Attitude toward fundamentalism
The argument regarding abuse
The Idea
of a Journey
The transition in ambition
from diffuse… to specific…
The arc… intermediate
ambition… the ultimate is not given to this definite normal form
The vision, inspired by
poetic imagination and established in logic, was as if that of a New World!
Nature of a journey… how
the endeavor is a journey
Inspiration
Attachment and burden
Paradigm and perspective
The significance of the
phase of transformation
Why the form of the journey
is essential to realization… as rediscovery of the universe
The nature of Being became
further revealed in clarifying and conceptualizing absence of being
Individual and All Being
(may) merge in the journey
The nature of story
Story as true narrative
(presentational) form
Meta-narrative
Story mirrors journey
What is achieved
Narrative design
The narrative and its
structures
Narrative modes
The personal and the
impersonal voice
Narrative as story. The life of Ravinder Singh
Some Details. Cast of persons. Pronouns used. ‘They’
Conventions for
capitalization and italics
Ideas
Understanding, charisma and
patriarchalism
Outline of the principles
Reflexivity
Attention to Meaning
Integration of the psyche
Absolute principles?
Thought and action
Continental Philosophy
Western Philosophy in the
context of the Theory of Being
In modern philosophy –
especially in recent 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*
On temptations of the
analytic approach
What is metaphysics? Some
possibilities
Problems in metaphysics –
continued. A catalog of classical, scholastic, modern and recent issues. Indian
metaphysics
How Theory of being,
Theory of human being (Human world) and History and theory of transformation
deepen and broaden classical systems
A system of human knowledge
Transformation
Aims
History of
transformation
Traditional systems
States of psychic
sensitivity and preparation
Animal and plant knowledge
Meditation Techniques
Shared meditation
Walking Meditation
Virtual and actual
transformations
Growth
Theory
Dynamics of Being
Twenty-one examples of the dynamics
Identity and personality. Charisma
The mental functions
Awareness, self-awareness
Body, healing, medicine
Originality, creativity,
productivity
Understanding
Transformation
Conceptual design,
technology and actual or ‘material’ implementation
Journey
Society. Charisma and
influence
Arching from the present to
the ultimate
Universal knowledge
Personality and influence
Arching from the immediate
to the ultimate
The future
The future describes some
thoughts for continuation of a journey and a state of being that may be sought
at the end of a life of endeavor
Transformation
Index
of Ideas and Names
Index
of Ideas and Names is, in addition to being a reference and cross-reference
tool, a source of the significant concepts and influences of the narrative
Concepts has
ideas and names listed according to the outline of the narrative. The concepts
for each section may be divided into primary, secondary and so on; in some
cases there are topical sub-headings. There is also a set of concepts for
Document design.
The Author
The Author
describes the place of the journey—ideas, transformation, endeavor and adventure—in
a life and as life… and shows the sources for the journey in the depth and
variety of that life