The Nature Of Science Today Denial Of The Truth Forms As Reality

Focuses upon ''the greater consciousness'' of persons who have as their ''Ideal self'' ''the will to truthfulness'' and correlates that will with Christian men (and women) as opposed to ''Natural Man,'' whose will is determined by some other, probably unconscious, ''Ideal self.'' A great failure scientists have committed today is their failure to ''be truthful'' or to will the identity of science to be that of truth ''forms.'' Only through the will to have true verbal and mathematical descriptions of reality will we be able to achieve the ''greater consciousness'' of the ''unified field.'' Dr. Frank Elbert Davis, III, labels false fantasies as false superegos, and labels true beliefs as true superego identities, or true Freudian ''identifications.'' Dr. Davis rejects the loss of boundary between the person and the ego, in current psychoanalysis, and the particles of mass and energy, in current physics. He discusses the ''greater consciousness'' that is Truth, citing ''splits'' in the works of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein that lead to understanding as to why they did not achieve their goals of ''structural development of personality'' and the ''unified field.'' This matter of ''the greater consciousness,'' of truthfulness, when accomplished, provides the ''unified field'' as a factual or objective interpretation of reality based upon truth ''forms,'' or real ''identifications.''

Did modern American social thought take a wrong turn when it followed John Dewey and William James? In this searching history of early twentieth-century political theory, James Hoopes suggests that, contrary to conventional wisdom, these pragmatic philosophers did not provide the basis for a socially-minded political theory. Dewey and James did not provide intellectual safeguards against the amoral acceptance of realpolitik and managerial elitism that has given liberalism a bad name. Hoopes finds a more substantial basis for liberal political theory in the communitarian-based pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce. Had modern social thought been influenced by Peirce, argues Hoopes, society could be seen as a set of interpretive relationships rather than a collection of discrete interests to be managed from the top down by elitist experts. Hoopes traces the influence of James and Dewey in the thought of Walter Lippman, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Mary Parker Follett. He concludes with a critical examination of contemporary thinkers, most notably Richard Rorty, who believe that James and Dewey offered the most socially useful philosophy within the pragmatic tradition. Combining philosophy, political theory, history, and close textual analysis in original ways, Community Denied offers a bold departure from previous studies of the subject and demonstrates the damage done to liberalism by reliance on a philosophy with no way of truly conceptualizing community.

Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana is a testament to the cross-cultural relevance of the work of one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, George Santayana (1863-1952, birth name Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana). A list of geographic origins of the twenty-two contributions contained in this volume indicates the transatlantic cultural diversity of scholarly representation: scholars variously hailing from Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, and Switzerland, and from the United States, representing three of its major regions. The authors explore the major plots of Santayana's thinking, including materialistic Platonism in ontology, skepticism in epistemology, rationality in social philosophy, naturalism in aesthetics, piety in materialism, and literary and poetic expression as a means to cosmic understanding. After a preface by Professor John Lachs (also a contributor), and an editorial introduction, the book is divided into three respective thematic parts: I. Ontology and Naturalism; II. Culture, Society, America; and III. Aesthetics, Poetry, and Spirit. Before each thematic section brief introductions of the section papers is provided to accommodate specific scholarly interests. The authors entrust the present volume to readers appreciative of the philosophic catholicity of the subject's work, invoking the book title which is taken from the preface of Santayana's mature system of philosophy, Scepticism and Animal Faith: "In the past or in the future, my language and my borrowed knowledge would have been different, but under whatever sky I had been born, since it is the same sky, I should have had the same philosophy"

This incisive Handbook brings together a wealth of innovative research from international curriculum and education experts to ask the question: what knowledge should be taught in school, how should it be taught, and for what purpose?