The Distinction of Human Being : An Introduction to the Logotectonic Method of Conception.

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Our Theme in a Nutshell -- 2. "Endowed with LOGOS" -- 3. What is Pure Reason? -- 4. The Art of Speculation -- 5. The First Designation of our Theme -- 6. Thought, the Builder -- 7. Thought in and of Itself -- 8. Reason as Technological Rationality -- 9. Reason as the Neuro-physiological Activity of the Brain -- 10. Reason as the Cognitive Behavior of Man -- 11. Reason as the Scheme of All Things Thought -- 12. Reason as the Latest Late/Modern Project? -- The First Part The Topology of Principles -- I. The Self-Severalty of Pure Reason -- A. The Principle of Drawing a Distinction -- 13. Reason Distinguished in itself and from itself -- 14. The Entity of Identity -- 15. The Experience of Self-Severalty -- 16. The Logic of Self-disjuncture -- 17. The Negativity of Reason -- 18. The Chiral Rhythm of Distinction -- 19. A Tradition of Distinction -- 20. Thought as Return -- 21. Abstraction and Reflection -- 22. The Tell-tale Mark of Man in Light of Post/Modern Thought -- 23. The Three-fold Activity of Pure Reason -- 24. The Being of Theoretical Thought -- 25. The Determination of Practical Thought -- 26. The Triadic System of Poetic Thought -- 27. The Exuberance of Thought -- B. The Principle of Revelation -- 28. Lucid Dreams and False Awakenings -- 29. The Self-evident Present of Thought -- 30. The Compelling Voice -- C. The Principle of Reception -- 31. The Present and the Poison of the Gift -- 32. The Trust of Welcome -- 33. The Danger of the Stranger -- II. The Turn and Return of Thought -- C. The Principle of Inaugural Discrepancy -- 34. The Ordeal of Jurisdiction -- 35. The Being of Thought Torn between the IS and the OUGHT -- 36. The Discrimination of Diversity -- 37. The Crime and the Punishment of the Soul -- A. The Principle of Determination.

38. Saint Anger -- 39. The Way of the Soul -- B. The Principle of Accomplishment -- 40. Eligible for Excellence -- 41. The Catalogue of Ideals -- 42. Visions of the Happy Ending -- III. The Destiny of Our Human Being -- B. The Principle of Determinacy -- 43. Turns of Words in a Tongue of Flame -- 44. Our Restless Heart -- 45. The Triunity of Perfection -- 46. Eternal Life -- 47. The Community of Beings -- C. The Principle of Signification -- 48. If Thought is Real... -- A. The Principle of Celebration -- 49. A Delightful Thought -- 50. Praise of Celebration -- The Second Part The Determination of Our Method -- 51. Doing Philosophy with Words -- I. Putting and Construing Names -- 52. The Meaning of Life -- 53. A Rose by any other Name... -- 54. The Meaning of Meaning -- 55. A New First Science? -- 56. The Terminology of Thought -- 57. The Syntax of Signature Terms -- 58. Trains of Thought -- II. The Mark of Distinction -- 59. Making a Difference -- 60. The Tree of Duality -- 61. The Dialectic of Terms -- III. The Logotectonic of Pure Reason -- 62. The Mediation of Inference -- 63. Building Ratios of Reasoning -- 64. The Logotectonic System of Ratios -- 65. The Ratios of Revelation -- 66. The Ratios of Foundation -- 67. The Ratios of Transformation -- 68. The Ratios of Reason -- The Third Part The Point of Departure of our Study -- I. The Experience of Critical Self-Reflection -- 69. Figure and Ground -- 70. How Useful are our Habits! -- 71. The Perils of Habit -- II. The World of Our Cave Man -- 73. I, Robot -- 74. Allegories of the Soul -- 75. The Nostalgia of Modern Man -- 76. Don't Worry, Be Happy -- 77. The Dark Knight of our Soul -- The Fourth Part The Issue of Wisdom's Holy Writs -- 78. The Compendium of the Three Epochs -- The Third Epoch - The Autonomy of Humanity -- 79. The Voice of Absolute Freedom.

80. The Ideals of the Self-realization of Spirit -- 81. The Conscience of Respect and the Compassion of Regard -- 82. The Logotectonic Form of our Experience of Freedom -- I. Rousseau -- A. The Freedom of Human Nature -- 83. The Savage and the Citizen -- 84. The General Will -- 85. The Person of the Lawgiver -- B. The Well-Being of Humanity -- 86. The State of Freedom -- 87. The Human Being of Freedom -- 88. Self-love vs. Self-interest -- C. The Morality of Self-Regard -- 89. The Virtue of Love -- 90. The Self-Several Being of Nature -- 91. The Dialogue with Myself -- II. Schiller -- 92. "Edel sei der Mensch..." (Noble be our human being...) -- C. The Aesthetic Education -- 93. Divisive Rationality -- 94. The ΛΟΓΟΣ of Theater -- A. The Ideal of Beauty -- 95. Beauty's Twofold Effect -- 96. The Aesthetic State of Mind -- B. Representations of Humanity -- 97. The Mirror Stage -- 98. Aesthetic Objects -- 99. Objects of Grace and Beauty -- 100. Objects Grand and Sublime -- 101. The Works of the Poetic Genius -- III. Hölderlin -- 102. The Poetry of Human Nature -- B. The Distinguished Life of Poetic Individuality -- 103. The Self-Several Unity of Poetic Spirit -- 104. The Life Story of Poetic Spirit -- C. Poetic Thought -- 105. The Craft and Art of Poetic Spirit -- 106. The Threefold Transcendence of Poetic Spirit -- A. The Poetic Principle -- 107. Consecration and Celebration -- 108. The Imagery of Our Self-Several Experience -- 109. The Triadic Ratio of Nature -- 110. The Celebration of Accord (Friedensfeier) -- The Second Epoch - The Deity of Self-Severalty -- 111. The Encounter with Self-Several Thought in Person -- 112. The Language of Christianity -- 113. The Distinguished Spirit of God -- 114. The Person of Distinction -- 115. The Light and the Gravity of the Law -- 116. The Logic of Love -- 117. The Logotectonic of our Experience of the Holy Spirit.

I. The Jesus-Narratives -- A. The Power of the Glory of God -- 118. The Logic of God's Reflection -- 119. The Paradox of Glory -- B. The Will of God fulfilled -- 120. Thought Hurts -- C. The Acknowledgement of Christian Faith -- 121. Confession and Benediction -- II. The Letters of the Apostle -- C. The Conversion of Faith -- 122. Mind Moving Mountains -- A. The Logic of the Cross -- 123. Charity -- B. The Congregation of the Saints -- 124. Preaching the Word of God -- III. The Gospel according to John -- B. The Salvation of the World -- 125. Light coming to Light -- C. The Life of Self-Severalty -- 126. Sin -- 127. The Severalty and Identity of Love -- A. The Savior of the World -- 128. The Life of the ΛΟΓΟΣ -- 129. Pure Reason in the Flesh -- The First Epoch - the Just Being of Destiny -- 131. The Seen behind the Seens -- 132. The Journey to Truth -- 133. Jovial Insight -- 134. Terms of Distinction -- 135. The Power of Determination of the ΛΟΓΟΣ -- 136. Outstanding Being -- 137. Being and Beings, Reason and Reasons -- 138. The Efficacy of the Best -- 139. The Logotectonic Form of the Knowledge of the Muses -- I. Homer -- A. The Portions of Divine Order -- 140. Destiny -- 141. Fate -- 142. The Order of Proportion -- B. The Apple of Discord -- 143. The Issue of Regard -- 144. The Issue of Glory -- C. Jovial Resolve -- 145. The Gods are with us -- II. Hesiod -- 146. The Muses' Voice of Distinction -- C. The Generations of the Gods -- 147. The Spawn of Abyss -- 148. The Children of Earth -- A. The Olympic Kingdom of Just Being -- 149. The History of Violence -- 150. Jovial Just Being -- B. The Well-Proportioned Good of Human Dwelling -- 151. The Just Fruits -- 152. Work in Season -- III. Solon -- 153. The Lawmaker of DIKH -- B. The Dwelling of Law and Order -- 154. ΕΥΝΟΜΙΑ (eunomia) -- C. The Discernment of what is Good -- 155. ΕΥΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ (euphrosunē).

A. DIKH (dikē) -- 156. The Indication of what is Right -- Conclusion -- 157. The Philology of Pure Reason -- 158. The Logotectonic of Speech Practice -- 159. The Etymology of Pure Reason -- 160. Gymnasia -- 161. A Cosmos of Words -- Bibliography -- I. Source Works -- 1. The Greek Epoch -- 2. The Christian Epoch -- 3. The Epoch of Freedom -- II. Authors of Post/Modernity -- III. General Reference Material -- 1. Books of Reference -- 2. Websites -- 3. Software -- Note on the Author.

Perhaps we are never done with thought, nor should be. If this is indeed the case, then Kant may have been right after all in supposing that folks will never lose interest in metaphysics, in thought thinking thought. But what of academics? Where would we find these days a comprehensive treatment of pure reason, of the epochs of its origins and accomplishments, that is not just another collection of interpretations of "source" texts in translation? This study introduces philosophy students and professionals to the "logotectonic" method of conception as developed by Heribert Boeder, a pupil of Martin Heidegger, which is broadly structuralist in its approach but endeavors to make evident how the principles of rationality governing the Occidental tradition of λóγος (logos) - even those dictated by the animus of our post/modern world of thought in opposition to it - are, in fact, founded upon the "nature" of pure reason itself, the intellect, the discipline, and the art of which can be understood as constituting a unique "language" containing a vocabulary of distinguished terms, a syntax that determines their ratios, and rules of inference with which these terms of principle, insight, and issue are built into trains of thought about thought, every thought. As a result, the wisdom of the Muses (Homer, Hesiod, Solon), of the Holy Spirit (the Synoptic Narratives of Mark, Luke, and Matthew, the Apostolic Letters of Paul, the Gospel of John), and of Humanity (Rousseau, Schiller, Hölderlin) can be seen to have thrice articulated, in their own terms, a moving vision of our experience with the distinction of human being, inspiring critical reflection to consider the λóγος as a destiny with regards to which even we, as the thinkers, the doers, and the builders of today, are still learning what it means to make a difference. 'The Distinction of Human Being'

offers contemporary thinkers, beginners as well as professionals, a comprehensive reading of the origin and the tradition of metaphysics encompassing the life and times of pure reason as it unfolds across its theoretical, practical, and poetic endeavor the last of which suggests what a philological philosophy might entail and demand of a new generation of friends of wisdom.

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