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LIST . OF . ADDITIONAL . . ARTICLES
on . Philosophy
In any section, the articles are best read in the order of presentation.
In-depth explanations of abreaction and catharsis, and any other aspect of psychology that I use, are on my psychology sites (see the Links page for their addresses). Brief over-views are usually in the glossary.
| Introduction | – | a note on influences and perspective. |
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The .Pursuit .of .Truth |
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The five articles give an overview of the thinking process and the pursuit of truth.
| Philosophy & Psychology | – | how these disciplines interact ; what philosophy can be. |
| Paradigm and Ideology | – | separating fact from valuation. |
| Reason and Intuition | – | the two aspects of intellect, and two aspects to truth ; feeling of truth. |
| Loop of Intuition | – | how intuition functions. |
| Causality & Metaphysics | – | the 'how' and the 'why' of reality ; psychological karma. |
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Relativity |
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The next articles feature a new interpretation of relativity. This concept has been consistently mis-understood by Western thinkers.
| Relativity of the Ego | – | a person is a relative being ; plus the time period for creation of the ego. |
| Morality & Psychology | – | moral relativity and dialectics ; objective ethics, happiness, and law of sorrow. |
| Moral States of Mind | – | circles and oscillations. Four modes of reality. |
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Belief |
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Prescriptive beliefs have two different psychological roots. Therefore I have made a distinction between morality and ethics, assigning each one a different root. I describe some limitations and consequences of moral and ethical beliefs.
| Morality and its Origins | – | origins and terminology ; desire for strong leaders and religious messiahs. |
| Sexuality & Ethics | – | how sexuality affects ethics. |
| Personal Evolution | – | practising ethics ; behaviour and character ; negotiating goodness. |
| Myth and Role | – | strengths and weaknesses of a mythic life. |
| Existentialism & Human Evolution | – | humanity is progressing beyond faith and power to love and justice. |
| Dualism & Theories of Ethics | – | two paths of spirituality : religion and the life of adventure. Ancient Athens. |
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Mind |
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Ideas on philosophical Idealism, or the view that reality is a mental construction. I use my understanding of the subconscious mind to produce a new formulation of traditional theory.
| Subjective Idealism | – | the ideas of George Berkeley and Paul Brunton. |
| Criticisms | – | inadequacies of subjective idealism. |
| Will and Representation | – | ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer : reality as expressions of will and struggle. |
| Objective Idealism | – | static and dynamic perception ; influences of mind and will. Definition of truth. |
There are two more articles featuring mind and philosophical Idealism : Synthesis in section 8, and End States in section 9.
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Sign . Systems |
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I bring in a few technical terms from early continental literary theory because I use them (along with my psycho-dynamic ideas) to construct a more modern theory of consciousness, or what a person is. A person is not a unitary being but a binary one. Hence I require a framework of thought that is at home with binary concepts. (Later continental theory, or post-modernism, is not of much interest to me).
| Semiology .(or Semiotics) | – | Saussure's concept of the linguistic sign. My first disagreement with him. |
| Existentialism and Psychology | – | two axes to consciousness ; ego and karma. |
| Meaning and Value | – | how the individual creates values for society. |
| Structuralism | – | I add dynamic structure to Saussure's static structure ; two sign systems. |
| Structure and Ideology | – | language is an ideology ; projection of language and consciousness. |
| Benjamin Lee Whorf | – | two aspects to thought : relationships and identity, or grammar and sign. |
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Language |
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Now some topics in philosophy of language. I bring together some isolated issues in recent Anglo-American moral philosophy in order to form the ‘language loop’. And I use some simple Buddhist logic to show where Saussure went wrong in his theory of signs.
| Problems of Language | – | the mind is relative, but language is self- referential. Going round in circles. |
| Language & Society | – | social change and language change ; ethnic destruction, and pursuit of truth. |
| Origin of Language | – | steps to public language ; the language loop ; community conflict. |
| Logic of Consciousness | – | true nature of the linguistic sign. |
| The Text in Literary Theory | – | roles of the text, author and reader in modern literary theory. |
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Handling . Paradox |
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In the philosophy of science, quantum mechanical processes and wave-particle duality are held to be mysterious and non-causal. And so they are not thought to be amenable to intellectual description and understanding. This view arises because the way to handle paradox is not understood. In addition, there is conceptual confusion over terminology.
| The Antinomies of Kant | – | two concepts that are in opposition to each other are needed to solve a paradox. |
| Charge and Feeling | – | the function of charge. |
| Waves and Particles | – | a solution to the wave-particle paradox. |
| Causality and Change | – | sometimes change is causal, and sometimes it is non-causal. |
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Mind and Matter |
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I explore the cogito experience. And the nature of relativity allows me to formulate the relation of matter to mind in a new way.
| Exploring the Cogito | – | comparing experiences of myself and Descartes. Influence of Schopenhauer. |
| Synthesis of Mind and Matter | – | I draw together wave and particle, Being and Becoming, cause and change. |
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Free . Will |
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A deep psycho-analysis throws up disturbing limitations to some traditional views on metaphysics and free will.
| Monism and Dualism | – | the framework in which I set my metaphysics. |
| Survival | – | negative features of the impersonal will ; violence and confusion. |
| Nihilism | – | effects of nihilism : structures of sexuality and authority. |
| Determinism | – | .four forms of determinism ; orchestration ; boundaries and barriers. |
| End States of Mind | – | more philosophical Idealism ; nihilism, oblivion, and cosmic evolution. |
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