Outline

PREFACE

Why Publish?

Outline

Audience

Reading the Essay

INTRODUCTION

Nature and Evolution of the Journey

A Very Short Account of the Journey in Being

The Nature of the Journey

Origins and Paths of the ‘Journey’

The Form of the Essay

Journey-Quest

Essential Concepts and Achievements

Being and the Concept of Being

Core Concepts, Arguments and Conclusions

On Criticism

Knowledge and Certainty

The Significance of Knowledge

Attitudes toward Knowledge and Certainty

Two Views of Knowledge: Transitional and the Absolute

The Nature and Possibility of the Absolute Framework

Knowledge and Action

Emotion, Belief and Faith

The Conceptual Problem of Knowledge

Prospects

Foundation and Concepts

The Journey

FOUNDATION

Introduction to the Theory of Being

The Nature and Concept of Being

Expectations for a Theory of Being

Outline of The Theory of Being: Metaphysics, Logic, and Cosmology

Implications of The Theory

Applications: Human Being and Society. Faith

Metaphysics

Introduction to Metaphysics

Being

Universe

The Void

Logos

The Normal

Mind

Becoming

Order and Chaos

Mechanism and Explanation

Form

Object

Principles of Thought

The Individual

Truth

Logic

Logic as Analysis of Necessary or Constitutive Form

Logic and Argument. Deductive Logics. Science

Possibility of Metaphysics

Certainty

Logic and the Void

Criticisms

Cosmology

General Cosmology

Two Divides in the Evolution of Being: Cosmos and Symbol

Normal Cosmology. Local / Physical Cosmologies. Applications: Theoretical Physics

Order and Chaos in Cosmology

Identity

Human Being and Society

Human Being: Organism and Origins

Human Mind

Order and Chaos in the Human Organism

Feeling, Awareness, and Consciousness

Psychology in a Normal World

Introduction to the Elements of Mind

Function

Growth, Development and Meaning

Language, Logic and Culture

Mind, Symbol and Value as a Proximate Account of Being

Order and Chaos in Society

Desirability

The Highest Ideal

Faith

The Concept and Nature of Faith

Faith, and Reason and Chaos

Religion, Myth and Charisma

Religions of the World

Religion and the Secular World

The Future of Religion

Bridging

Criticisms, Conclusions, and Prospect

Status the Theory of Being

Two Approaches to Foundation

Conclusions on the Nature of Being

The Ultimate

JOURNEY

What is the ‘Journey in Being’?

A Map of the Journey

Background: History of Knowledge and Exploration

Understanding

Unity in Understanding: Metaphysics and the Journey in Being

Metaphysics and Philosophy in Light of the Theory of Being

Transformation

Background

Realization

Dynamics of Transformation

Experiments in Transformation

Construction of Being

Action, Ideals and Society

The Journey Continues

After the Journey

THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS

Problems of Being and Knowledge

Being and Transformation

Knowledge

Program of Study and Experiment

Ideas: Aspects of Being

Transformation

Status and Future of the Journey

Subsequent Editions

LEXICON

SOURCES AND INFLUENCES

Bibliographic Information

INDEX