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JOURNEY IN BEING |
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ANIL MITRA, © 2006 |
The vision, inspired by poetic imagination and established in logic, was as if that of a New World!
A Variety of being is ever open to discovery and realization
Further analysis of ‘being’ and of ‘existence’
On temptations of the analytic approach
Immanence of law, pattern and Form
Theory of Being. First proof of the ‘fundamental principle’ of the Theory of Being
The Void, substance and Elimination of substance
Ultimate versus conservative metaphysics
Form. Mechanisms of emergence. Normal mechanisms
‘Derivations’ from the Theory of Being
Knowledge as knowledge-of the entity
Transcendental meaning of faithfulness
The number of fundamental concepts
The absolute character of abstract objects and certain simple objects*
Sufficient faithfulness and full faithfulness
The adequacy of sufficient faithfulness*
Preliminary discussion. Necessary and contingent modes of establishing truth
Introduction to induction and science
Hypothetical versus factual interpretation of (scientific) theories
An example: the Theory of Evolution
A Platonic view of Being without a distinct Platonic world*
Logic (Logic) is universal law*. Metaphysics and Logic are identical
Second proof of the ‘fundamental principle’ of the Theory of Being
Mind. Mind versus manifestations and particular cases of mind
Mechanism. Necessity of indeterminism. Probability of incremental change
Normal mechanism: incremental change
Dominant versus multiple times and relative strength of interaction
Status of substance as locally or practically fundamental
Two Divides in the evolution of the local cosmological system
Interest to this narrative of the nature of human being
The organism. Microscopic and macroscopic elements. Life and mind
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
Exceptional achievement and disorder
Ethics as elements of and relations among the elements of (human) freedom
Education. The Institutions of culture and enculturation
Morals, economics and politics
Individual versus group interest. The status of ‘Political Realism’
Interaction of Knowledge and Value
Significance of faith. Faith and doubt
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
The nature of Being became further revealed in clarifying and conceptualizing absence of being
Individual and All Being (may) merge in the journey
The personal and the impersonal voice
Understanding, charisma and patriarchalism
Understanding and Transformation*
Western Philosophy in the context of the Theory of Being
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*
Issues and problems of metaphysics addressed and resolved in this narrative*
What is metaphysics? Some possibilities
States of psychic sensitivity (sometimes called altered states)
Transformation. Bases and Theory*
Virtual and actual transformations
Society. Charisma and influence
Arching from the present to the ultimate
Transformation so far. Designs*
Arching from the immediate to the ultimate
The first ambition is a continuation of the path so far