METAPHYSICS
METAPHYSICS
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ANIL MITRA PHD, COPYRIGHT © JUNE 2004
SINCE THE METAPHYSICS IS A RESTRUCTURING OF JOURNEY IN BEING, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO PRINT THE ENTIRE TEXT
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CONTENTS
OUTLINE
Prologue to the Metaphysics
Introduction: an Adventure in Being
Metaphysics: Theory
Metaphysics and the Theory of Being
Knowledge and Action
Metaphysics: Topics
Cosmology
Mind
Theory and Approaches to Group Action and Value
Classical and Modern Problems of Metaphysics
Metaphysics: Applications
Experiments in the Transformation of Being
The Variety of Being
Action, Charisma and Influence, and History
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE TO THE METAPHYSICS
INTRODUCTION: AN ADVENTURE IN BEING
An Individual Journey
Personal
The Significance of the Individual Journey
Origins of the Dynamics of Being
The Present
Ends
Journey into Ultimate Being
Fundamental Principles
The Principle of Being
The Principle of Meaning
Reflections on the Principles of Being and of Meaning
There is Exactly One Universe
The Principle of Identity
The origin of the Principle of Identity
The Four Paths or Ways
Knowledge
Being
Experiments with the Variety of Being
Society
The Stumbling
The Journey Continues…
METAPHYSICS: THEORY
1 METAPHYSICS AND THE THEORY OF BEING
1.1 What is Metaphysics?
1.1.1 The Possibility of Metaphysics
1.2 Importance of Metaphysics for the Journey in Being
1.2.1 As a Foundational aspect of the Experiments in the Transformation of Being
1.2.2 Every Organism has an Intrinsic Metaphysics
1.2.3 Metaphysics and Science
1.2.4 Using the Tradition
1.3 Being
1.3.1 Existence
1.3.2 [Materialism]
1.3.3 Existence and Concepts
1.3.4 Nothingness
1.3.5 Possibility
1.3.6 Nature of Being
1.3.7 Characterizing Being
1.3.8 Being, Process, Cause, Time and Dynamics
1.4 The Principle of Being
1.5 Ultimate Being
1.5.1 What is Ultimate Being?
1.5.2 The Possibilities of Actual Beings
1.5.3 What Possibilities are Good?
1.5.4 Omniscience
1.6 Systematic Metaphysics
1.7 Language, Words and Metaphysics
1.8 Metaphysics / Action
1.9 Metaphysics and the Possibility of Knowledge and Logic
2 KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION
2.1 Knowledge
2.1.1 Two Roles for Knowledge
2.1.2 What is Knowledge?
2.1.3 Intuition and Formal Knowledge
2.1.3.1 Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description
2.1.3.2 Journey in Being is an Adventure in the Forms of Being and Thought
2.1.3.3 Alien world view of Knowledge; Presentationism and Representationism
2.1.4 How is Knowledge Possible
2.1.4.1 The Functions of Knowledge
2.1.4.2 Kinds of Knowledge
2.1.5 Knowledge, Belief and Truth
2.1.6 Knowledge, Meaning and Reference
2.1.7 Criteria of Validity
2.1.8 Security
2.1.9 Criticism, Skepticism and their Radical Forms
2.1.9.1 What is the Depth of Knowledge in the Organism?
2.1.10 Justification and Action
2.1.11 Knowledge and Action
2.2 Processes of Knowledge
2.2.1 Discovery
2.2.1.1 Concepts
2.2.1.2 Articulation of Concepts
2.2.1.3 Field of Concepts
2.2.1.4 Conception or Concept Formation
2.2.1.5 Definiteness of Concepts
2.2.2 Justification
2.2.3 Science
2.2.4 Direct Knowledge
2.3 Knowledge Used in the Journey in Being
2.3.1 Topics
2.3.2 Range of Human Knowledge
METAPHYSICS: TOPICS
3 COSMOLOGY
3.1 Reflections on the Number of Universes
3.2 There is Exactly One Universe
3.3 Regarding “Something from Nothing”
3.4 Regarding the Existence of Consciousness and Presence
3.5 Principle of Connection
3.6 Becoming
3.7 Kinds of Process and Cause
3.8 Co-origins of Being, Causation, Dynamics and Time
3.9 Reflections on the Approach to Co-Origins
3.10 Structure
3.11 Anthropic Principles as Examples of the Transcendental Method
4 MIND
4.1 Mind and Metaphysics
4.1.1 What is Mind?
4.1.2 The Fundamental Role of Experience or Feeling
4.1.3 Unconscious Mental Processes
4.1.4 Unconscious Mental Processes and the Body
4.1.5 Mind / language
4.1.6 Mind / body
4.1.7 Mind / body: summary and consolidation of philosophical conclusions
4.1.8 Mind / body in science
4.1.9 Noumenon and Phenomenon
4.1.10 Origins of Ideas
4.2 Characterization of Mind
4.2.1 Purpose of this Section
4.2.2 A Set of Mental Axes
4.2.3 Mind / Being
4.2.4 Key Characterizations
4.2.5 Relation to Environment
4.2.6 Creation
4.2.7 A Unified Theory of the Functions of Mind
4.3 Dimensions of Mind / Being: Introduction
4.3.1 Indefiniteness of Concepts
4.3.2 Example: Humor and Emotion
4.3.3 Dimensions of Mind / Being: Outline
4.4 Dimensions of Mind / Being: Foundations
4.4.1 Objectives
4.4.2 Criticisms of the Classical Functions of Mind
4.4.3 Explanatory / Organizing Principles
4.5 A System of the Dimensions of Mind, Being and Action
4.5.1 Character of Mind / Being
4.5.2 Functions: States and Processes
4.5.2.1 Memory
4.5.2.2 Attitude – and Concepts
4.5.2.3 Action
4.5.2.4 The Body
4.5.3 Extension in Time
4.5.3.1 Learning and growth; development of the functions
4.5.3.2 Personality and its Development
4.5.3.3 Commitments
4.5.3.4 The dynamics of being; becoming; local / non-local
4.5.3.5 Arching from the Individual / Here-Now to the Universal
4.6 Symbol and Language
4.6.1 The importance of language
4.6.2 Analytic or Linguistic Philosophy
4.6.2.1 Solipsism
4.6.2.2 The Concepts, “Everything” and “Nothing” or “Nothingness”
4.6.3 Meaning and Communication
4.6.4 Kinds of Linguistic Meaning
4.6.5 Formal Systems and Formal Meaning
4.7 Metaphysics and the Possibility of Knowledge and Logic
4.7.1 Knowledge and Inference
4.7.2 Knowledge and Inference in an Organism
4.7.3 Metaphysics and the Possibility of Knowledge
4.7.4 The Possibility of Logic
4.7.5 Analytic and Synthetic Propositions
4.7.6 Metaphysics and the Possibility of Implication / Inference
4.7.7 Not Every Idea is a Form
4.7.8 The Variety of Logical Structures
4.7.9 Mathematics
4.8 Theories of Action
5 THEORY AND APPROACHES TO GROUP ACTION AND VALUE
A Purpose: Constructive, Aesthetic and Global dimensions of Ethics
5.1 Nature of Moral Conduct
5.1.1 The Possibility of Moral Conduct
5.1.2 What is good is not laid out in advance
5.2 Free Will
5.3 Ethics and Morals
5.4 Philosophical and Reflective Ethics
5.4.1 Constructive vs. Passive and Prescriptive Ethics
5.4.2 Ethical Traditions
5.4.3 Applied Ethics
5.5 Analysis of Judgment
5.5.1 The tension among imperatives
5.5.2 Ethics, Metaphysics and other concerns
5.6 Meta-ethics
5.7 Ethics, Being, Knowledge
5.8 Ethics and Journey in Being
6 CLASSICAL AND MODERN PROBLEMS OF METAPHYSICS
6.1 The Problems of Metaphysics
6.2 Modern Problems in Metaphysics
6.3 Types of Metaphysical Theory
6.4 Criticisms
6.5 Argument and Construction in Metaphysics. Meta-questions
6.6 Recent Metaphysics
METAPHYSICS: APPLICATIONS
7 EXPERIMENTS IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF BEING
Purpose and Nature of the Experiments
What is a Transformation of Being?
Possibility
Means or Ways
Meaning and Value
The Value of Transformations of Being
Dynamics of Being
Becoming
Perception and Vision-Quest
Dreams and Hypnosis
What Will a Theory of Dreams Do?
The Nature of Dreams
Sleep
The Meaning and Function of Dreams
Hypnosis
Samkhya
Meditation
Intuition and Mysticism
8 THE VARIETY OF BEING: IDEAS, CONCEPTS AND THEORY, AND EXPERIMENTS
God / religion
Logos
Computation
Computational Models of Mind / Cognitivism
Theoretical and Conceptual Background: Ontology and Knowledge
9 ACTION, CHARISMA AND INFLUENCE, AND HISTORY
Significance of History
Kinds of Change
Charisma and Patriarchalism: Two Kinds of Influence
The Problem of Significance
The Place of Social and Political Theory
Social Theory
Theories of Social Structure
Social Change and Dynamics
The History of Influence
Concepts in Politics
What is Politics?
Issues
The Origin of Theory and Possibility of its Application
What is Theory?
Meta-theory
Origin and Possibility of Action
Political and Moral Theory
Justification of Theory
Political Systems
Theatres Influence
Education
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