Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations: (Avebury Series in Philosophy)

In this volume, ideas about space and time are developed, for the first time in the history of philosophy, that match the new physics. A new foundation is laid for ethics by grounding ethics on the author's psycho-biological deduction of the emotions, offering a progressive model to replace the Freudian paradigm. Doubly grounded on both Eastern and Western thought, insights from biology, psychology, evolutionary theory and ethics are brought together in a unique and fruitful synthesis. At the same time, human barbarisms such as the Holocaust are pointed to as reminders that there are just limits to compassion. This book presents a sophisticated text for metaphysics, epistemology and systematic ethics.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 In between metaphysics and epistemology: on certifying what is true in philosophical discourse; on the synthetic a priori - everything about the synthetic a priori has not been said; Kant's four missing arguments - a phenomenological treatment of the Kantian idea of space; space, time and metaphysics - space and time, time, Kant's mistake, space, space and time revisited, space, time and metaphysics, science and metaphysics; the Thalian fallacy - the problem of physics and philosophy; the complementary principle, the sixth; the analogies of experience - the grounding of metaphysics and the ground of metaphysics, causality, space and time, Descartes' causal proof, truth; a metaphysics of virtual reality - the inner and outer circle, space and time as transcendental conditions for the possibility of representation in general, application, Kant and metaphysics and metaphysics of virtual reality; on fact and essence, the philosophers and the world - on the inseparability of fact and essence, building a bridge tot he world. Part 2 The nature of ethics and the bio-psychological deduction of the emotions: towards a new ethical foundation - bio-evolutionary social theory - the original goodness of human nature - methodological considerations, substantive considerations, the bio-psychological deduction of the emotions - the theoretical foundations for the grounding of a new ethics; the moral realm of truth and Mencius' phenomenology of compassion; metaphysical foundation of the phenomenological structure of ethics as regional metaphysics - metaphysics and ethics, ethics as regional metaphysics, metaphysical truths in ethics, fact and value, a note on the bio-psychological deduction of the emotions.