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PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION
“As a man thinks, so is he.” Personally, and socially, so is he. Yet if this is true, then "as a man thinks" has led us into the thick of global crisis. What exactly is it, about our thinking, that fails us? What has gone so wrong? There are firm reasons why we may hope for new direction. Above all, we have a new view of the connectedness of all things. Never before has this encompassed so much. It makes a crucial difference to philosophy. Secondly, when we recast philosophy’s high-level concepts in more concrete terms, it becomes possible to discuss them without confusion. This is the method of this book. There is much of interest for the theologian, too. Legendary film director Ingmar Bergman once wrote, “What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not?” His “can not” had to do with what Prof. Karen Barad calls the “hegemony of physics”. Everything, Briefly details why it is impossible, in fact, to believe in a closed universe of cause and effect.
FEATURES
• A foreword by bestselling philosopher Martin Cohen
• At-a-glance chapter descriptions
• About 100 examples and analogies
• Nearly 40 excursus-boxes discuss nuances
• More than a dozen diagrams of core concepts (right)
• An extensive bibliography with 400+ entries
• A glossary and indexes for quick reference
• About 800 footnotes tie the book into past
and current thinking
BOOK CHAPTERS
Part I Foundations
Chapter 1 Low-Level Concepts
Chapter 2 A New Horizon
Chapter 3 What is Really Real
Chapter 4 Limited Relations
Chapter 5 Liberating Relations
Chapter 6 Words and Relations
Chapter 7 Things and Relations
Part II Personal Ethics
Chapter 8 An Endless Expanse
Chapter 9 Human Limitations
Chapter 10 Relations and Expectations
Chapter 11 Opaque Relations
Chapter 12 An Inter-Related Ethics
Chapter 13 Esthetic Relations
Chapter 14 More About Words
Part III Public Ethics
Chapter 15 Political Relations
Chapter 16 Informational Relations
Chapter 17 Employment Relations
Chapter 18 The Imposition of Relations
Chapter 19 Relating Identities
Chapter 20 A Boundless Environment
Chapter 21 Unvirtuous Behavior
Chapter 22 Critical Theory
Chapter 23 Awakening
Part IV Science and Math
Chapter 24 Defining Ought
Chapter 25 Fact and Value
Chapter 26 Relating Science
Chapter 27 Relating Math
Chapter 28 Relating Languages
Chapter 29 The Isolation of Science
Chapter 30 Scientific Hubris
Chapter 31 Pseudo Ethics
Part V Classics
Chapter 32 Deeper Relations
Chapter 33 Causal Relations
Chapter 34 Historical Relations
Chapter 35 Mind–Body Dualism
Chapter 36 The Purpose of Relations
Chapter 37 The Teaching of Relations
Part VI The Ultimate
Chapter 38 Religion as Relations
Chapter 39 God Beyond Relations
Chapter 40 Relations Beyond Life
Chapter 41 Meaning as Relations
Chapter 42 What is Metaphysics?
Chapter 1 Low-Level Concepts
Chapter 2 A New Horizon
Chapter 3 What is Really Real
Chapter 4 Limited Relations
Chapter 5 Liberating Relations
Chapter 6 Words and Relations
Chapter 7 Things and Relations
Part II Personal Ethics
Chapter 8 An Endless Expanse
Chapter 9 Human Limitations
Chapter 10 Relations and Expectations
Chapter 11 Opaque Relations
Chapter 12 An Inter-Related Ethics
Chapter 13 Esthetic Relations
Chapter 14 More About Words
Part III Public Ethics
Chapter 15 Political Relations
Chapter 16 Informational Relations
Chapter 17 Employment Relations
Chapter 18 The Imposition of Relations
Chapter 19 Relating Identities
Chapter 20 A Boundless Environment
Chapter 21 Unvirtuous Behavior
Chapter 22 Critical Theory
Chapter 23 Awakening
Part IV Science and Math
Chapter 24 Defining Ought
Chapter 25 Fact and Value
Chapter 26 Relating Science
Chapter 27 Relating Math
Chapter 28 Relating Languages
Chapter 29 The Isolation of Science
Chapter 30 Scientific Hubris
Chapter 31 Pseudo Ethics
Part V Classics
Chapter 32 Deeper Relations
Chapter 33 Causal Relations
Chapter 34 Historical Relations
Chapter 35 Mind–Body Dualism
Chapter 36 The Purpose of Relations
Chapter 37 The Teaching of Relations
Part VI The Ultimate
Chapter 38 Religion as Relations
Chapter 39 God Beyond Relations
Chapter 40 Relations Beyond Life
Chapter 41 Meaning as Relations
Chapter 42 What is Metaphysics?