THE SOUL OF REASON

The material presented here is taken from a working paper titled The Soul of Reason:  An Argument for a New Post-Modern Realism in Social Theory and Philosophy.  (D. H. Bowles 2020)

Table of Contents

Part 1:  Social Theory Context

1.   Setting the Stage
2.  The Mutual Constitution Solution
3.  The Moral Ontology of Mutual Constitution

Part 2:  Psychological Foundations

1.  The Problem of Consciousness
2.  We Are Not What We Think We Are
3.  The Divided Brain Thesis
4.   Psychedelic Drugs and the Experience of Altered States
5.   ‘Counter-Culture’ Consciousness
6.  The Renaissance

Part 3:  Philosophical and Theoretical Implications

1.  A New Post-Modern Realism
2.  The Soul of Reason:  Love vs. Fear
3.  A New Horizon

References & Bibliography

Abstract

Conceptual Schematic of the Argument

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