Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Structure of Experience
Chapter 1. Prologue: A Parable about Awareness
The Book
Seeing
Touching
The Book Again
Reading
Eidetic Features
Hierarchy of Types
The Notion of Being
Sensory Inwardness
Phenomenally Empty Space
Generic Features of Sensory Objects
Inside and Outside: Appearance and Being
Intellection and Choice
Human Bipolarity
Enculturation and the Heart
Flatland Revisited
Philosophic Questioning
Chapter 3. Human and Cosmological Time: Sketches
A Note on Contingency and Eternity
Chapter 4. The Heart and the Life of Feeling: A Phenomenological Sketch
Chapter 5. Phenomenology of the Book: A Study of Institutions
Language (I)
The Book Once More
Technical Production
Production of the Book
The Exchange System
Speech and Writing
Modes of Writing
The Electronic Revolution
Reading
Language (II)
Oral Tradition
Literacy
Literature
Postscript: Further Meditation on the Environment, Natural and Built
Part II. Moral-Political Extensions
Chapter 6. Aspects of Freedom: Choosing and Functioning
Intersubjectivity
Natural Moral Law and the Virtues
The Ten Commandments as Secondary Natural Law Principles
Kant and the Moral Tradition
On Happiness
Postscript on Environmental Ethics
Part III. Being and Human Existence
Chapter 8. Being Human and the Question of Being: On the Unitary Ground of Individual and Cultural Pluralism
Chapter 9. Taking the Universal Point of View
Chapter 10. A Universe of Creative Empowerment
Nature
History
Evolving Nature
Transcendental Extension
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index