JOURNEY IN BEING

 Home | Top | © | Frames

Main sections are starred (*)

FOUNDATION | The source

• Ambition*

  • The vision was that of a New World!

• The narrative

• Journey*

• Being*

  • Meaning of ‘being.’ Existence

  • Meaning in general

  • A Variety of being is ever open to discovery...

  • Concepts

  • The system of concepts

  • On Definition

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

  • On temptations of the analytic approach

• Metaphysics: Theory of Being*

  • Five essential concepts

  • Immanence of law, pattern and Form

  • The fact of Being

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

  • Objections and responses

  • The Void, substance and Elimination of substance

  • Ultimate versus conservative metaphysics

  • Form. Mechanisms of emergence. Normal mechanisms

  • ‘Derivations’ from the Theory of Being

  • Power and knowledge

• Objects

  • Knowledge as knowledge-of the entity

  • Identity and faithfulness

  • The nature of the object

  • The transcendental argument

  • Transcendental meaning of faithfulness

  • The number of fundamental concepts

  • Truth

  • Absolute objects*

  • Absolute character of abstract 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. Necessary vs. contingent modes of establishing truth

  • Introduction to induction and science

  • Hypothetical versus factual interpretation of theories

  • An example: the Theory of Evolution

  • Theory. Factual nature of theories*

  • Fact and pattern. Perception requires all elements of psyche

  • Necessary facts

  • Nature of induction

  • Introduction to deduction

  • Mathematics

  • A Platonic view of Being without a distinct Platonic world*

  • The nature of mathematics

  • Induction and deduction

  • The concept of Logic*

  • Logic is universal law*. Metaphysics and Logic are identical

  • Logic as the Theory of Possibility and the constitutive form of Being*

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

  • Logics

• Mind*

  • Matter does not exclude mind. Indefiniteness of mind and matter

  • Mind. Mind versus manifestations and particular cases of mind

  • Originality

  • Consciousness

  • Attributes

  • 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. 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

  • Time and space

  • Dominant versus multiple times

  • 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

  • Psychoanalysis, determinism and the unconscious

  • Function. Feeling. Integration of the ‘elements’ of Mind. Icon and symbol: free and bound

  • 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 freedom and their relations

  • 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

  • Being became further revealed in clarifying absence of being

  • Individual and All Being merge in the journey

  • The personal and the impersonal voice

• Principles of thought*

  • Criticism and construction

  • Understanding, charisma and patriarchalism

  • Outline of the principles

  • Reflexivity

  • Attention to Meaning

  • Integration of the psyche

  • Thought and action

• Understanding and Transformation*

• Philosophy and Metaphysics

  • Analytic Philosophy

  • Continental Philosophy

  • Western Philosophy in the context of the Theory of Being

  • In modern philosophy, philosophy as it is possible has been abandoned

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

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

• Problems in Metaphysics

  • Issues and problems of metaphysics addressed resolved in this narrative*

  • What is metaphysics? Some possibilities

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

• A System of Human Knowledge

• History of Transformation*

  • Traditional systems

  • States of psychic sensitivity

• 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

  • Narrative form

• The Future*

  • A first ambition is a continuation of the path so far

  • A second ambition - the experience of Being over becoming, perception over thought

• Index

  • Foundation

  • Being

  • Metaphysics

  • Objects

  • Logic

  • Cosmology

  • Mind

  • Human being

  • Morals

  • Faith

  • Journey

  • Names

• The Author