New and Unique

Literary agents typically ask one what is new and unique about one's work. This is a run-down of my philosophical opus:

• Probably the first panoramic metaphysic of our postmodern era.

• It avoids the central idea—Schopenhauer’s ‘simple idea’, which is characteristic of most if not all older philosophies.

• Unlike previous metaphysics, it seeks to unify and to reconcile, not to overturn or diminish previous philosophers.

• It presents a new and comrehensive theory of language.

• It details how culture and behavior is transmitted through language.

• It incorporates—or reincorporates—ethics in metaphysics, and provides a new and universal basis for ethics.

• It provides a philosophical basis for environmental ethics, which has been so desperately lacking in our time.

• It represents a unification of Eastern and Western philosophy.

• It repositions science and mathematics in our total conceptual scheme, thereby elevating the human sciences.

• It offers a new scientific method, applied now in open systems, not closed. Introduces a new theory of falsification called invalidation.

• It proposes a new understanding of cause and effect, or causality.

• It proposes new solutions to the problems of free will and history.

• It outlines the basis for a reconciliation of philosophy and religion.

• It shifts the line between general revelation and special revelation.

• Gently, logically, persuasively, entertainingly, it offers comfort.