The New Philosophy of Universalism
, by Hagger, Nicholas
- ISBN: 9781846941849 | 1846941849
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/9/2009
The New Philosophy of Universalism challenges the Dawkins-neoDarwinist view of a random universe in favour of an ordered bio-friendly one.
Nicholas Hagger studied Islamic and Oriental philosophy while lecturing at the University of Baghdad in Iraq and the University of Libya and as a Professor at Tokyo and Keio Universities, Japan.
| Notation | |
| Numbers in Powers of Ten | p. xiv |
| Larger Numbers in Powers of Ten | p. xv |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| The Story of Philosophy | |
| The Origins of Western Philosophy | |
| The Presocratic Greek Philosophers | p. 11 |
| The Philosophies of Early Religions | p. 17 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 21 |
| The Decline of Western Philosophy and the Way Forward | |
| Plato and Aristotle: Metaphysical and Scientific Emphases | p. 23 |
| The Fragmentation of Modern Philosophy | p. 32 |
| The Way Forward: Reunification | p. 49 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 53 |
| The Scientific view of the Universe and the order principle | |
| Cosmology and Astrophysics: The Big Bang and the Origin of the Universe | p. 56 |
| The Big Bang and Infinite Singularity | p. 57 |
| The Shaping of the Universe | p. 63 |
| Acceleration, the Surfer and the Infinite | p. 68 |
| Overview of the Big-Bang Model | p. 72 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 78 |
| Physics: The Quantum Vacuum and the Expanding Force of Light | p. 80 |
| Newton's Ordering Light | p. 81 |
| Hidden Variables and Order | p. 84 |
| The Quantum Vacuum and Infinite Order | p. 86 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 95 |
| Biocosmology: The Bio-Friendly Universe and Order | p. 97 |
| Six Models for the Structure of the Universe | p. 98 |
| The Bio-friendly Model | p. 99 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 125 |
| Biology and Geology: The Origin of Life and Evolution | |
| The Origin of Life | p. 127 |
| Plate Tectonics | p. 133 |
| Ice Ages | p. 136 |
| Evolution by Natural Selection | p. 143 |
| Apes and Humans | p. 149 |
| DNA and the Oneness of all Living Things | p. 156 |
| Darwinism: Evidence and Doubts | p. 161 |
| Intelligent Design? | p. 165 |
| Expansionism: "Mechanism" of Order | p. 170 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 176 |
| Ecology: Nature's Self-Running, Self-Organising System | p. 178 |
| Instinct: Inherited Reflex or Transmitted Order? | p. 181 |
| Food Chains, Food Webs and Order in Nature's Ecosystems | p. 192 |
| Co-operation and Symbiosis in "The Great Chain of Being" | p. 197 |
| Ailments and Co-operative Healing Plants | p. 211 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 217 |
| Physiology: The Self-Regulating Body, Brain and Consciousness | |
| The Body's Homeostasis | p. 218 |
| The Brain's Homeostasis | p. 231 |
| How Photons Control Body and Brain | p. 241 |
| Interaction of Brain and Levels of Consciousness | p. 246 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 253 |
| The Metaphysical view of the Universe in the New Philosophy | |
| The Rational Approach to Reality and the System of the Universe | p. 258 |
| Rational Ontology: The Concept and Structure of "What Is" | p. 263 |
| Form from Movement Theory: The Origin and Creation of the Universe | p. 269 |
| The Rational Universe as a System of Light | p. 273 |
| The Law of Order and the Law of Randomness | p. 277 |
| Rational Approach to Metaphysics | p. 280 |
| Possibility of Survival after Death | p. 284 |
| Rational Solutions to Philosophical Problems | p. 288 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 290 |
| The Intuitional Approach to Reality and the System of the Universe | p. 292 |
| Intuitional Ontology and the Experience of What Is | p. 293 |
| Intuitional Epistemology and the Intellect | p. 294 |
| Intuitional Psychology and the Multi-Levelled Self | p. 299 |
| The Intuitional Universe as a System of Light | p. 307 |
| Intuitional Approach to Metaphysics | p. 319 |
| Philosophical Summary | p. 322 |
| Reunification of Rational and Intuitional Universalism | p. 324 |
| Reunification of Science and Metaphysics | p. 327 |
| Metaphysical Revolution: Five Reunifications | p. 329 |
| A New Discipline | p. 331 |
| Order in Human Affairs: Applications of Universalist Thinking | |
| New Understanding of the Past | |
| Historical Universalism | p. 334 |
| Cultural Universalism | p. 337 |
| Literary Universalism | p. 344 |
| Shaping the Future | |
| Environmental Universalism | p. 347 |
| Political (World-Government) Universalism | p. 355 |
| Religious Universalism | p. 357 |
| Epilogue | |
| Summary | p. 361 |
| Closing Vision | p. 365 |
| Postscript | p. 368 |
| Appendices | |
| Constants and Ratios | |
| 326 Fundamental Physical Constants-complete listing in alphabetical order | p. 372 |
| 152 Fundamental Physical Constants-grouped under fields | p. 388 |
| 75 Ratios - extracted from table A. | p. 394 |
| Biology's Big Bang: the Cambrian Explosion | p. 396 |
| Natural Light's Effect on Growth | p. 398 |
| The electromagnetic spectrum | p. 400 |
| The Human Brain | |
| General view of the human brain | p. 401 |
| The pineal gland or pineal body or epiphysis | p. 401 |
| The human brain showing the claustrum and amygdala | p. 402 |
| Francis Crick's illustration of the claustrum | p. 402 |
| The Human Eye and Reception of Light | |
| General view of the human eye | p. 403 |
| How photons are conveyed to the brain | p. 403 |
| Light-brain transfer in close-up | p. 404 |
| Richard Dawkins' illustration of the reception of light | p. 405 |
| Appendix 6 | p. 406 |
| Notes and References to Sources | p. 407 |
| Bibliography | p. 443 |
| Index | p. 449 |
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