Jamesâs multiverse cosmology.
In the great turning point at the beginning of the 20th century, this is the trail of an exceptional spirit that explored the âday and nightâ of the human mind in search of another cosmic consciousness and a different religious consciousness. From the study of anomalous psychological phenomena such as multiple personalities and mediumship, he delved into the world of religious experience, listening to the new meaning and secret music that reason, driven to the brink of stranding, attempts to weave. From science to religion, the experience of leaping over the enormous gap between the two eventually culminates in the revolutionary worldview of the philosophy of âpure experienceâ and the cosmology of the multiverse. A mandala-like multiverse, full of color, music, and spirituality, encompassing pure experience as the root of life and existence. Intersecting with Kitaro Nishida, D.T. Suzuki, Fechner, Kenji Miyazawa, and others, this book depicts the adventure of a thought that has passed between rationality and irrationality, and has moved toward a lively vision. Kunitake Ito (2009) Amazon
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Jamesâ pragmatism in the multiverse - an empiricism that questions beyond experience.
This book clarifies the path from empiricism to metaphysics and the whole picture of pluralistic cosmology. The multiverse is the most reasonable hypothesis that can be rationally thought about if we are thoroughly attuned to the experience of consciousness. This book unravels Jamesâs convoluted cosmology and clarifies its pragmatist basis and range.
Table of Contents
preface
Chapter 1: Consequences of Thorough Pragmatism âDiscovering Passages to Realism Section 1: Restoration of the Philosopher James Section 2: Why Fundamental Empiricism is âFundamental Section 3: Suspension and Approximation to Perspective Section 4: Consequences of Thorough Pragmatism Section 5: From Pragmatism to Pluralistic Cosmology
Chapter 2: The Turn of Plural Worlds Theory âFrom the resolution of complexity to the full acceptance of complexity Section 1: Problems Related to the Polysemy of the Universe and World Concepts Section 2: Reduction to âOneâ: Pluralistic World Theory as a Means of Reducing and Eliminating Complexity Section 3: Phenomena and the Puzzle of the Absolute âThe demand for multiple worlds based on the âprinciple of fullnessâ and the âchain of being. Section 4: Acceptance of the world as it is: from external plurality to internal plurality
Chapter 3: Aspects of the Pluralistic Universe âfrom continuity of experience to a mental picture of the universe Section 1: Direct Experience and the Pulse of the Universe Section 2: The Pulsating StageâThe Basal Dimension of Reality Section 3: Consciousness of the Large and Small: Hierarchical Order of Reality Section 4: Origins of Creation and Subjectivity: Continuous Unification through âPrivatization
Chapter 4: Systematic Interpretation of Pluralistic Cosmology âEffectiveness and Limitations Section 1: Approximation and Suspension between Systemic Worldview and Pluralistic Cosmology 1ă. System Concerns 2. The multiverse from a systems-theoretic viewpoint Section 2: System Theory of the Psyche: A Theory of Organization by âInformation 1ă. Definition of âspiritâ based on âinformationâ concerns 2. Intersection of two kinds of ladders: evolutionary process and mental process Section 3: The Four Quadrants and the Composition of Progressive Evolution: The Restoration of Interiority
- the four quadrants of the connected holons and realities
- resistance to a flat world
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