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Here I introduce the books that I have written. I am putting them on the web slowly since I have to change Word format to Web format. Eventually by 2027 there will be three books in total on philosophy.
Philosophy
Book 1. Binary
Consciousness
Chapter
1.
Nature of Consciousness, describing ego and relativity, flow
of thought, binary states, meaning and value.
Chapter
2. Nature
of Relativity, describing semiology, structuralism,
and the logic of consciousness.
Chapter
3.
Nature of Language,
describing problems and origins of
language, language and society, Benjamin
Lee Whorf.
Chapter 4.
Nature of
Matter, describing
how to resolve a paradox, waves and particles, charge and feeling,
causality
and change.
Philosophy
Book 2. Belief
and Truth
Chapter 1.
Topics include the Pursuit of Truth, Beliefs, Barriers to Free
Will, and Evolution on Earth.
Philosophy
Book 3. Mind
and
Phenomenology
Chapter 1.
Topics include Descartes's cogito, Mind, Mind
and Matter, Perception and
Phenomenology.
The
nineteenth-century
idealist
philosopher Georg Hegel noted that
"the
owl of Minerva spreads its wings only
when dusk begins to fall
".
He meant that philosophy only understands an historical era when that era is coming to an end.
The reverse is true as well. When philosophy can understand an era, then we can assume that that era is ending.
Why philosophy?
Why
not
science? Why not religion?
It is not sufficient just to
be a scientist. The scientist understands only the rational half of
reality. For the scientist, only the rational
is real.
It is not sufficient
just to be
a mystic. The mystic understands only the intuitive half of reality.
For the mystic, only the feelings are real.
The
philosopher's task
is to blend
reason and emotion together into an harmonious
conception of reality
that is suitable for the needs of his times.
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Ian Heath
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