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The puzzle of meaningness
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Book contents
Find
your
way
around.
Meaningness
Introduction
An appetizer: purpose
Preview: eternalism and nihilism
Misunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable
Acknowledgements
Stances: responses to meaningness
Stances trump systems
Stances are unstable
Fixation and denial
Nebulosity
Confused stances come in pairs
No middle way
Accepting nebulosity resolves confusions about meaning
Not a general dialectic
Confusion, completion, misery and joy
Pattern
Adopting, committing, accomplishing, wavering, appropriating
Resolving confusions about meaningness
Schematic overview: all dimensions
Meaning and meaninglessness
Schematic overview: meaningness
The puzzle of meaningness
Meaningfulness and meaninglessness
Extreme examples, eternalism and nihilism
Eternalism
Kitsch
Armed eternalism
Nihilism
Spam from God
Wavering nihilism: emotional dynamics
Meaningness: the complete stance
No cosmic plan
Unity and diversity
Schematic overview: unity and diversity
The Big Three stance combinations
Monism
Critiques of monism
The dualist critique of monism
The nihilist critique of monism
The complete stance’s critique of monism
Dualism
Participation
Purpose
Schematic overview: purpose
Mission
Materialism
Enjoyable usefulness
Self
Schematic overview: self
The true self
Selflessness
Intermittently continuing
Personal value
Schematic overview: value
Specialness
Ordinariness
Nobility
Capability
Schematic overview: capability
Total responsibility
Victim-think
Light-heartedness
Ethics
Schematic overview: ethics
Ethical totalitarianism
Ethical nihilism
Ethical responsiveness
Authority
Schematic overview: authority
Reasonable respectability
Romantic rebellion
Freedom
Sacredness
Schematic overview: sacredness
Religiosity
Secularism
Kadag
Contingency
Schematic overview: contingency
Causality
Chaos
Flow
Appendix: Terminology
Terminology: Complete
Terminology: Emptiness and form, nebulosity and pattern
Terminology: Non-dual
Metablog
A blog
about the
book
.
I seem to be a fiction
Spiritual smugness
Dr. Bronner’s monist soap
New Earth, Big Lie
SBNR: system-free monism?
The New Age: appeal and limits
Acknowledging Romantic Idealism
An improbable re-animation
Bad ideas from dead Germans
Pop spirituality: monism goes mainstream
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