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The way of being Anil Mitra, Copyright © March 15,2021. Revised April 13, 2021. Home page for the way of being Contents the way and its origin in the world the immediate and the ultimate as one
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 = ? the world = introduce path / realization epilogue = expand 1 Prologueliving 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 origins of the way resources world history received culture experience the individual 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) 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 2 The worlda 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
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 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 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 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 3 The wayrealizing the ultimate the aim of being is the aim of the way the way and its means reason also considered above received ways integration of reason and received ways 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) 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… 4 Epiloguefrom the way to 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 |