Atheistic Platonism : a manifesto / / Eric Charles Steinhart

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910633919703321
• Autore: Steinhart Eric Charles
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 9783031177521; 9783031177514
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 pages)
• Collana: Palgrave frontiers in philosophy of religion
• Disciplina: 211.8
• Soggetti: Atheism - Philosophy; Realism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations1 -- List of Figures -- 1: Renewing Atheism -- 1 A Cave Filled with Shadows -- 2 A New Approach to Platonism -- 3 Twilight Atheism -- 4 Abstract Objects and Possible Universes -- 5 Cosmological Explanations -- 6 Objective Moral Laws and Values -- 7 The Meaning and Purpose of Life -- 8 Souls and Life After Death -- 9 Atheistic Religion and Spirituality -- 10 Beyond Twilight Atheism -- References -- 2: Starting at the Bottom -- 1 Starting with Nothing -- 2 Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing -- 3 How the One Gives Existence to the Beings -- 4 Altars of Stone Shining in the Sun -- 5 How the One Avoids Contradicting Itself -- 6 How the One Maximizes Positive Existence -- References -- 3: The One Emanates the Forms -- 1 A Relation Grows from the One -- 2 The One Emanates an Empty Object -- 3 The Self-Amplifying Power of the One -- 4 The One Emanates All Finitely Complex Objects -- 5 The One Emanates All Infinitely Complex Objects -- 6 The One Emanates an Unsurpassable Structure of Beings -- 7 An Ontological Argument for Nature -- References -- 4: The Cosmic Forms -- 1 The Physical Forms of Universes -- 2 Building Geometrical Structures -- 3 Adding Causality: A Cosmic Computer -- 4 Adding Physical Things: The Game of Life -- 5 The Form of Our Universe -- 6 All Possible Universes Have Forms -- 7 The Library of Cosmic Forms -- 8 The ; Treasury of Bright Cosmic Forms -- 9 Lineages of Ever Better Cosmic Forms -- References -- 5: The World Tree -- 1 From Abstract to Concrete -- 2 How the One Animates Forms -- 3 How Animated Forms Manifest Images -- 4 The Animation of the Treasury -- 5 The Treasury Manifests Concrete Relations -- 6 The Emergence of the Great World Tree -- 7 The Selective Power of the Good -- References -- 6: The Emergence of Value -- 1 The Directionality Argument.; 2 The Laws of Logic -- 3 Value Is Distance from the One -- 4 Intrinsic Value Is Complexity -- 5 The First Universes -- 6 Simple Physical Things -- 7 Complex Physical Wholes -- 8 From Particles to Molecules -- References -- 7: Emergence of Life -- 1 Self-Organization -- 2 Self-Maintaining and Self-Adapting Systems -- 3 Self-Regenerating Systems with Functional Parts -- 4 Proto-Biological Systems -- 5 Living Cells and Their Minds -- 6 Societies of Cells and Multicellular Organisms -- 7 Cooperative Relations Among Organisms -- 8 Societies of Complex Organisms -- 9 Our Universe -- References -- 8: Platonism as a Way of Life -- 1 To Become Divine -- 2 The Ascent of the Soul -- 3 Degrees of Functional Excellence -- 4 Matter Is Impairment -- 5 Strategies for Transfiguring Souls -- 6 The Iterative Method of Transfiguration -- 7 Transfiguration Is Reprogramming the Body -- 8 Lifting Yourself Up by Your Own Bootstraps -- 9 Do-It-Yourself Transfigurations -- 10 Gaining Superhuman Virtue -- 11 Transhumanist Theosis -- 12 Ecstatic Theurgy -- References -- 9: Multiverse Rebirth -- 1 Bodies beyond Bodies -- 2 The Libraries of Universes -- 3 The Growth of Complexity -- 4 Multiverse Reincarnation -- 5 The Soul Is the Form of the Body -- 6 Progressive Karma -- 7 The Plotinian Higher Universe -- 8 Your Tree of Lives -- 9 Universes Beget Universes -- References -- 10: To Call the World Tree -- 1 Casting a Circle of Reasoning -- 2 Water: The Original Nothingness -- 3 Earth: The Emergence of Existence -- 4 Air: The Totality of Forms -- 5 Sky: The Structure of Nature -- 6 Light: The Best of All Possible Worlds -- 7 Sun: The Good Illuminates the Best World -- 8 Fire: The Tree of Universes -- 9 Sex: The Andretor and the Gynetor -- 10 Ecstasy: The Stars in the Sky -- 11 Uncasting the Circle of Reasoning -- References.; 11: Atheistic Mysticism -- 1 Interpreting Mystical Experiences -- 2 Features of Mystical Experiences -- 3 Eleven Atheistic Mystical Experiences -- 4 The Five Themes in Atheistic Mysticism -- 5 Atheistic Mysticism and Relational Structure -- 6 Atheistic Mysticism and Ego Dissolution -- 7 Atheistic Mysticism and the Good -- References -- Index.