Over on Twitter, I tweeted summaries of the six parts of my magnum opus, my metaphysic, my panoramic philosophy. Of course, it is a challenge to compress 300 pages into 300 words. Here are the six parts summarised, with the brevity that tweets require:
• Part I of my opus. Everywhere, philosophies contradict each other. Hegel asked, how can we know which one is true? I set out how the answer lies in our new understanding of the relatedness of all things, which is influenced in turn by the advance of modern science.
• We have a huge problem in our time with ethics, and the place of science and nature. In Part I, I describe the relatedness of all things. In Part II, I describe overarching features of such relatedness. These features provide us clearly and distinctly with ethical principles.
• Part III of my book deals with public ethics. In order to bring all things into balanced relation, we need a society which is rich in information. This favours democracy—but a democracy which is information-focused as much as it is people-focused. I call it a ‘syntocracy’.
• Milton Munitz wrote, ‘Language is languages.’ Part IV of my opus unites our various languages—most basically the languages of science and mind. In the process, it reduces the status of science—taking care to ground this. To think of science as specially set apart is dangerous.
• The fifth part of my book addresses some of the more classic themes of metaphysics, seeking to integrate time-honored subjects with a philosophy of relations. But first, I drive deeper with the foundations of philosophy of Part I, so that there is something new to say about them.
• The final Part VI of my book deals with ultimate issues, including religion, God, death, and meaning. These lie beyond or above our normal human experience. In Parts I to V, our notion of causality changed. This is the only way in which we may approach ultimate issues afresh.
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