Practical Metaphysics: Validation - Softcover

Shepard, Mr. Daniel J

9781467926782: Practical Metaphysics: Validation

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Prologue A new metaphysical system in light of Western Philosophy Passive observation elucidated by the Aristotelian Cartesian System of Cause and Effect was examined in some detail within Tractates 1-6 of this work. The Cartesian system emerged as a means of answering question regarding ‘reality’ as we perceived it to be. As to be expected when examining the progress of humanity’s philosophical development, the philosophical development emerging from the foray of the initial questions led to the system of reality being elucidated as Cartesianism. Cartesianism, the concept of 1st truth generated by the understanding of a ‘cause and effect’ reality, in turn initiated its own unique set of questions which remained unanswered in terms of the limitations a Cartesian system presented regarding the whole of reality. Such unanswered questions riddle the description regarding the historical development of Western Philosophy as presented within Stephen Moor’s synopsis. The direct and indirect questions expressed within the synopsis are addressed in the conclusion, The Peer Review, of Volume III. The directly and/or indirectly posed questions elucidated within the synopsis are addressed in the Peer Review following this tractate. The process of answering the questions within a separate tractate, rather than intermittently throughout this particular synopsis, is utilized to prevent interrupting the flow of the synopsis itself. The historical synopsis lays the necessary foundation by which the reader can better understand the historical influence underlying the questions submitted by the philosophers participating in the simulated peer review found within part two of the conclusion of this work. One must keep in mind that it is not just the Aristotelian Cartesian System of Cause and Effect which we find emerges from questions being asked and which leaves its own unique questions in place. We also find the Kant/Hegelian non-Cartesian system, a system lacking ‘a’ first truth, a system lacking ‘cause and effect’, a foundationless system emerging from the questions being asked. The development of a non-Cartesian system in turn leaves its own unique set of questions. It is the questions left by both the Cartesian and the non-Cartesian systems, which initiate the question: Why now? Why does the new system, Cartesianism existing with non-Cartesianism, Cartesianism, Cartesianism acting as the ‘power’ source for non-Cartesianism, ‘a’ first truth found within the lack of ‘a’ first truth, multiplicity found within singularity, ‘being’ being ‘Being, symbiotic panentheism emerge now at this point in time. The non-Cartesian system emerged as a result of the questions the emergence of the Cartesian system put into play. The reason the New Metaphysical Perception of the individual acting within God emerges now is that the unique questions left in place through the independent development of both the Cartesian system and non-Cartesian systems describing ‘reality’ beg to be answered. Neither the Cartesian nor the non-Cartesian systems are capable, on their own, of answering all the unique questions each system generates. It is the development of this new Metaphysical model, it is the development of a third metaphysical system which provides ‘a’ and perhaps ‘the only’, means of answering such questions based upon reason/philosophy. Peer Review – Historical Development The following one page summations emerge directly from the issues discussed in Tractate 18: Why Now: A Short Introduction to Western Philosophy. The numbering system is left intact to facilitate the reader’s ability to quickly cross check the context from which the questions are extracted. Both the numbered table of contents and the panel orientation are provided. ...

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Mathematics/Science Undergraduate degree - University of Michigan Master's degree in Physical Science - Eastern Michigan University 30 years teaching mathematics & science 20 years science and/or mathematics department chair I’m not sure if I became a philosophical thinker because I was a depressant or if I became a depressant because I was a philosophical thinker. Whichever the case, I am both. To make matters even stranger I am an optimistic depressant philosophical thinker. Actually it might be more accurate of me to state that I am an optimistic depressant philosophical thinking metaphysicist. But how did metaphysics enter the picture? During my early teens I began questioning what was ‘out there beyond ...’ Over time this thinking sequentially lead to ‘beyond the stars’, ‘beyond the galaxy’, 'beyond time and space' until I came to the end of the physical universe itself. Once I had reached this 'outer wall' of the physical universe. I could not help but mentally poke a hole in this wall. Having created a hole in the outer wall of the physical, I peered through the hole only to see nothing. At this point I was mesmerized with questions that forever haunted me: What is this nothingness on the ‘outside’ of the physical universe? What is the physical universe immersed within? What is out there? What are the characteristics of this existence outside the universe? What does this outside of the universe have to do with us, with myself, with God Itself? The questions became cruelly unrelenting and overpoweringly dominating of my very psyche. With time and the use of humanity’s four perceptual tools (observation – science, universal teachings – religions, rational dialectics – philosophy and universal language – mathematics) the answers began to reveal themselves. The answers came not in terms of a bias on the part of one tool as opposed to another but in terms of all four tools agreeing with each other. The biggest hurdles to the work came in the form of cynicism, skepticism, closed minds and most of all in the form of the words, ‘can’t’, ‘its impossible to know’, ‘humankind is not intended to understand’, ‘prove it’. In all good conscience, it must be stated, ‘We cannot prove anything beyond all doubt ...’ Having stated the obvious, we can then move on to state: ‘... but we can ‘prove beyond a reasonable doubt.‘ So it is a new model of reality emerged capable of leading our species into the new age of the third millennium.

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