Journey in being

A level IV outline for Journey in being-PowerPoint presentation.doc

Anil Mitra, 2008

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Introduction

Journey in being

This section was the preface; see level II outline for further comments

A journey in Ideas and Identity

A journey in the finite and the infinite

A journey in being

Journey / Being

Journey

Being

Illumination

An Ultimate and novel view

The view

A note on lexical meaning

Clash with common and scientific views. Difficulty of understanding. The Normal

Demonstration

Immediate and Ultimate

Ideas and Transformation

Audience: to whom the narrative may appeal

Influence

Outline

Ideas

Foundation

Development of the ideas

Journey

Supplement

Objections and counterarguments

Topics from the history of thought

Intuition

Introduction

Intuition and Object

Notes on Intuition

Intuition I

Intuition II

Intuition III

Intuition IV

Unity of Intuition

Intuition and metaphysics

Experience, concept and reference

The idea of experience… and feeling

Necessity of complete reference

Existence

Subtitle—The idea of Demonstration

Being

Global and local description

Metaphysics

Necessary Objects

Being

All being

Domain

Unitary character of rationality, i.e. the apparently dual empiric-logic

Universe

Fundamental consequences

Possibility and Actuality. Introduction to Logic

There is one Universe

Space and time

Domain

Void

Existence of the Void

The Universal metaphysics

Introduction

Fundamental principle of the Metaphysics of immanence

On Logic

A cosmological variety

The Normal

The edge of the Normal

Substance, determinism and explanation

The Universal metaphysics is ultimate in depth and breadth

Completion of the rational (empiric-logic) ‘Method’

Form

Limits

Objects

Concept and Object

Necessary and Normal Objects

Particular and Abstract Objects

A system of Objects

The fundamental concept of the metaphysics

Logic, Grammar and Meaning

Cosmology

The concept of cosmology

Variety

Ideational form

Death

Process

Mechanism

Causation

Space, time and being

Local including physical cosmology

Mind

Principles of thought and action

Normal worlds

Alternate title—Normal sentient worlds

Subtitle—Human world and human endeavor

Introduction

Human world: individual and society

Human being

Social world

Civilization

The state of civilization

Faith

Common and experimental endeavor

A system of modes of being and knowing

Introduction

The modes

Some human modes, common and experimental…and their limits

The animal

Primal holism—early religion-myth, and science

RELIGION versus religion

Secular humanism

SCIENCE versus science

The future of the ideational form

Subtitle—The role of reason, politics and economics

Method

Subtitle—Ring of ideas

Introduction

Experience

Method I   Rational, i.e. empirical-logical character of experience. Normal Objects

Being

Method II Necessary Objects

All Being

Method III      Abstraction as empirical

Domain

Method IV       Experience and difference

Void

Method V  Rational or logical derivation

Object

Method VI       Use of the principle of reference to bring uniformity to the—ad hoc—distinction of ‘particular’ versus ‘abstract’

Cosmology

The concept of cosmology:

Variety

Process

Method VII     Principles of thought and action

Principles of thought and action as method is new. Scientific method has been elevated to level 4

‘Scientific method’

Human world and human endeavor

Method VIII   Intuitive theory as the intersection of the necessary and the Intuitive

Journey

Method IX       Dynamics of being

Summary

Intuition and Object

Faithfulness—its meaning and range

One and Many—The Universal metaphysics

One and Many—Normal and Local studies

Action

Perfection

Contributions to the history of ideas

Journey

A principle of the journey

Concept and character

Origin and evolution

Transformation… and its theories

Dynamics of being

Essential concerns of the dynamics of being

Catalytic states and modes of transformation

Development of the dynamic

The transformations

A minimal system

Four phases

The journey so far

Assessment; the way ahead

Study

The future

Supplement

Demonstrations

Objections and counterarguments

The foundational fallacy

Experience and existence

Experience

Existence

Being

Doubts about demonstration of the nature-existence of the Universe and the Void

Formal problems concerning the fundamental principle

Adjusting the fundamental principle and its consequences to realism

Objections not based in Rationality, i.e., not based in content or method

Topics from the history of thought

Philosophy and metaphysics

Metaphysics

Philosophy

Extensions

Problems of metaphysics

Some significant problems addressed and resolved in the present development

The idea of method

A system of human knowledge

A.     Symbols and Knowledge

B.      The Universe

C.     Artifact