Transformations in Consciousness: The Metaphysics and Epistemology. Franklin Merrell-Wolff Containing His Introceptualism

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SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1995 - Philosophy - 326 pages
This book presents a philosophy that includes the enlightenment experience--that embraces the wider ranges opened by the door of realization--while not excluding the contents of the more common experience. A realization in consciousness that finds no place or adequate recognition in philosophical systems proves the inadequacy of those systems. The author first briefly surveys the principal schools of modern Western philosophy in order to show how they fall short. He then presents his philosophy grounded on the authority of direct realization resulting from a transformation in consciousness.
 

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Contents

Toward a Synthetic Philosophy
11
Naturalism
13
Materialism
14
Positivism
16
The New Realism
22
Pragmatism
34
Vitalism
41
Empiric Voluntarism
47
The Flow of Consciousness
144
St John of the Cross
151
Conception and the Mystic Thought
160
Transcendentalism
173
Conception and Introception
177
Innate Ideas
178
The Subject Transcends the Object
184
Reality and Appearance
187

Percept and Concept
52
Pragmatic Science
64
Gnostic Realization
66
Idealistic Pragmatism
72
Test by Consequences
75
Idealism
79
Plato to Kant
83
Jung
90
Reason as Nous and Logos
93
Introceptual Idealism
97
Freedom and Necessity
99
Introception and Introspection
103
Self and Divine Otherness
114
Hegel and Schopenhauer
122
The Self
125
Unidentified Introception
129
The Problem of Formulation
132
Conception Perception and Introception
133
INTROCEPTUALISM
141
Introception
143
Substantiality Is Inversely Proportional to Ponderability
189
Knowledge through Identity
197
The Meaning of Divinity
202
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF MYSTICISM
213
Judgments of Meaning and Existence
215
Three Mystical Paradigms
220
The Christ
226
The Buddha
234
Shankara
242
Self Atman or NoSelf Anatman
254
A Mathematical Model of Ego Metaphysics
261
Mystical Knowledge
271
The Mystic Thought
276
Knowledge as Negation
279
Shift in the Base of Reference
280
Leubas Antinoetic Argument
282
Significance of Immediate Qualities of Mystical States
292
EPILOGUE
299
INDEX
307
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After graduate work in philosophy at Harvard, Franklin Merrell-Wolff accepted a position as professor of mathematics at Stanford. A few months later, he abandoned a promising academic career in order to facilitate his quest for a third way of knowing--a way apart from sense perception and conceptual cognition. "I found myself in sight of the limits to which our present egoistic consciousness has reached, and also had found adumbrations of another kind of consciousness where alone, it seemed, solution of the subject-object consciousness could be found." He was the author of Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Experience and Philosophy: A Personal Record of Transformation and a Discussion of Transcendental Consciousness: Containing His Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object and His Pathways Through to Space, also published by SUNY Press.

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