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Meaningness
History of ideas
Acknowledging Romantic Idealism
An improbable re-animation
Bad ideas from dead Germans
Dr. Bronner’s monist soap
I seem to be a fiction
Illuminatus!, Voegelin, and the politics of SBNR monism
New Earth, Big Lie
Not a general dialectic
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Meaningness
Why meaningness?
An appetizer: purpose
Preview: eternalism and nihilism
What is meaningness?
Misunderstanding meaningness makes many miserable
Acknowledgements
Stances: responses to meaningness
Stances trump systems
Stances are unstable
Fixation and denial
Nebulosity
Pattern
Confused stances come in pairs
No middle way
Accepting nebulosity resolves confusions about meaning
Not a general dialectic
Confusion, completion, misery and joy
Adopting, committing, accomplishing, wavering, appropriating
Resolving confusions about meaningness
Schematic overview: all dimensions
The Big Three stance combinations
Meaning and meaninglessness
Schematic overview: meaningness
The puzzle of meaningness
Meaningfulness and meaninglessness
Extreme examples, eternalism and nihilism
Eternalism
I get duped by eternalism in a casino
Spam from God
Kitsch
Armed eternalism
Nihilism
Wavering nihilism: emotional dynamics
Nihilistic rage
Nihlistic intellectualization
Nihilistic depression
Meaningness: the complete stance
No cosmic plan
Unity and diversity
Schematic overview: unity and diversity
Boundaries, objects, and connections
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
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