A history of Logos as an idea / theory of the original image / ontology and resemblance / the transcendent and immanent domains. This first slide show in a series presents, in part, Unification Thought. This show introduces the history of an idea; Logos as the ground for further exploration. The second section in the presentation considers the theory of the original image which presents Logos and Eros as a creative proposal and a base for further ontological explorations, personal creativity, and a raison d'être for ethics and virtues.

1. Logos:
the
participatory
universe
archetypal cosmology
deep ecology
cosmos and psyche
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2. contents:
• Logos - Targum - Heraclitus - Neoplatonism (intro)
• Christian synthesis and separation from Judaism (trinity)
• Theory and structure of the original image
• Logos / word - heart creativity and attributes (Yang Yin)
• Logos as structure cosmology and self (shimjung)
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3. memra and targum - logos
• Mosaic Law - word - miracles - law (c.1440 BC)
The creative or directive word or speech of God manifesting His power / Divine
presence / angelic messengers.
• second temple 521 BC / Babylonian Talmud - Targum
• Rabbinical - Jewish scriptures (+ spoken explanations)
• Memra and Sophia (Aramaic)
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4. heraclitus BC 535-475 (505 - 450)
• Logos <> Panta rhei
• 1. physis - cosmology
• 2. nomos - law/socio-politico order
• 3. ethos - character / calling / destiny
• 4. telos - purpose
• Fragment 1 reads: “Although this Logos is eternally valid, yet men are unable to
understand it -- not only before hearing it, but even after they have heard it for the
first time. That is to say, although all things come to pass in accordance with this
LOGOS, men seem to be quite without any experience of it - - - “
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5. pythagoras 582 - 496
• tetractys (a mathematical universe
- Logos)
• harmony of the spheres (planets
and stars move in mathematical,
rhythmic, harmony / pre established
harmony - Logos)
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6. socrates 469-399 BC
Plato suggests Socrates speaks with
true belief and logos in the dialogues.
The Republic: partly, an applied Socratic
epistemology. Glaucon possesses "true belief,”
but lacks a corresponding "account"; an
explanation of why this belief is true.
Theaetetus: Plato's dialogue on epistemology,
defines knowledge; meta logou alêthê doxan ("true
belief combined with logos"). It is logos Glaucon is
lacking that he urgently seeks from Socrates.
Glaucon can only accomplish this is by calling up
from his own psyche every objection and doubt
that he can find there. - the Socratic method.
( God’s Will p. 528-29 )
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7. plato / aristotle
• Platonic ideas / forms / archetype
Gr. 'arche`typon - stamped first / model;
pattern, type / The original pattern or model
of a work; blueprint. (panpsychism - religion)
Solids + demiurge of Timaeus,The Republic:
archetypes on the ground
• Aristotle: initial agreement on
universals (Rhetoric Bk 1 Chpt. 13) /
rational mind / ethical character
(ethos-integrity) / rhetorical logos.
later: eidos-hyle (science)
ideal - universal
transcendent ideal love
shadow - corporeal
Laws Republic Symposium - against
homosexuality and carnal love
428-347 384-322
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8. Plato - Logos and Eros
• Eros rescued from the erotic - Symposium
• Divine Beauty and Virtues
• Symposium: Phaedrus / Pausanius / Euryximachus / Socrates
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9. the stoics
• Zeno of Athens 334-262 - ‘the universe is God’ (Logic-reason-
truth-ethics) ‘cosmic determinism and human freedom’ (influenced Rome)
• Logos= fire (intelligent cosmos) / Logos = mind or mental
elements pervading nature and self - ‘a seminal logos’
• Borrowed from Heraclitus, ‘an active principle of reality’
• Metaphysically, Stoics were materialists. While all that exists is material,
nevertheless there are two principles of reality. 1. The passive principle is matter
devoid of quality. 2. Borrowing from Heraclitus, the active principle of reality is the
logos, Reason, or God. The Stoic view of the logos is materialistic / pantheistic.
• God has no existence distinct from the rational order of nature. God is not a
personal, transcendent deity essential to later Western theism.
Seneca - RomeThe philosophers including Zeno
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10. judaic logos / philo
• “Memra” - Moses and the ʻwordʼ / Monotheism /
Shekinah-wisdom or “Hokhmah” - masculine and
feminine (from the Targum)
• Philo considers these divine powers in their totality, treating them as a single
independent being, which he designates "Logos". This name, is borrowed from Greek
philosophy / Heraclitus then adopted by the Stoics. Philo's conception of the Logos is
influenced by both of these schools.
• borrowed from Heraclitus; "dividing Logos" (λόγος τομεύς), which calls various
objects into existence by the combination of contrasts (Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres
Sit); Logos as an active and vivifying power. Philo also borrowed Platonic elements in
his Logos: the "idea of ideas" and the "archetypal idea".
20 BC-50 AD
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11. plotinus - neoplatonism
• Plotinus: Taught by Ammonius Saccas
• Enneads considers a transcendent ‘One’ / Emanation /
divine mind / Logos - archetype
• “the divine mind” / one <> intellect <> soul ( behind all surface
phenomena presented to the senses are 3 higher spiritual principles or hypostasis
(Logos - plan or formative principle): each one is more subtle than the previous - The
One or absolute, Nous or the divine mind and psyche / world-soul. ( archetypes -
understood by the divine mind in contemplation)
• "Strive to give back the Divine in yourselves to the Divine in the All."
204-270
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12. the great synthesis- c.150 AD
moses
targum
(Memra - Shekinah
or Hokhmah )
philo
heraclitus
plotinus
neoplatonism
stoic
(Logos Idea
or Archetype)
tillich:
great synthesis
origen
clement
(ammonius saccas
alexandrian theology)
Logos divine Logos christChristian
‘ground of being’
Trinity ClementOrigen
Logos (quantum) re-imagined: 20th century
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13. the alexandrian interpretation
• Philo - memra / sophia
• Justin Martyr - ’logos spermatikos’ / christology
• Origen - eternal cosmic process / trinity
• Clement - Logos accessible to all- logos as christ
• Tillich - great synthesis mosaic<>greek<>
egyptian<>christian / Saccas - catechetical doctrine
New Alexandrian Library
“the ground of being and the
courage to be”
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14. logos as 3 hypostases
Logos
cosmology
(quantum-classical)
“big bang”
Logos Nous
rational mind
word-ethics
character
Logos
true self
rational-intuitive
archetypal
protoconsciousness
a non-dual proposition
psyche (mind) in participation with cosmos /
archetype or idea to form
substance / spirit / consciousness
cosmology / mind / self
“the way up and the way down”
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15. hermes trismegistus
"Before
the
visible
universe
was
formed
its
mold
was
cast.
This
mold
was
called
the
Archetype,
and
this
Archetype
was
in
the
Supreme
Mind
long
before
the
process
of
creation
began.
Beholding
the
Archetypes,
the
Supreme
Mind
became
enamored
with
Its
own
thought;
so,
taking
the
Word
as
a
mighty
hammer,
It
gouged
out
caverns
in
primordial
space
and
cast
the
form
of
the
spheres
in
the
Archetypal
mold,
at
the
same
time
sowing
in
the
newly
fashioned
bodies
the
seeds
of
living
things.
The
darkness
below,
receiving
the
hammer
of
the
Word,
was
fashioned
into
an
orderly
universe.
The
elements
separated
into
strata
and
each
brought
forth
living
creatures.
The
Supreme
Being-­‐-­‐the
Mind-­‐-­‐male
and
female,
brought
forth
the
Word;
and
the
Word,
suspended
between
Light
and
darkness,
was
delivered
of
another
Mind
called
the
Workman,
the
Master-­‐Builder,
or
the
Maker
of
Things.”
POIMANDRES, - THEVISION OF HERMES -
an Egyptian logos explored by
Augustine Ficino Jung
“If
then
you
do
not
make
yourself
equal
to
God,
you
cannot
apprehend
God;
for
like
is
known
by
like.”
172 / 141 BC
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16. two early church fathers
• Justin Martyr 100-165 - from Pythagoras / Stoics
Logos Spermatikos and Christ-Logos / Jesus as the Logos. The placement of the
Holy Spirit – “the ruah or pneuma of God – begins to obtrude itself as a third
element in the relationship between Father and Son.”
• Tertullian 160-225: a forerunner of the Nicene doctrine,
approaching the subject from the Logos doctrine. (‘Against Praxeas’ -
early trinity or triune doctrine - Trinitas): reveals a triune Egyptian doctrine i.e. Atum
Shu and Tefnet / all synthesized as Egyptian-Greek-Christian, into dogma.
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17. the trinity - as separation
• Logos as ‘word made flesh’ separates Christianity from
Judaism - John 1:14 “The Word (Logos) became flesh and made his dwelling
among us. ... , the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace
and truth.” - Memra and Logos part company here
father
son
holy
spirit
God
•Theophilus of Antioch late 2nd century, defines the
Trinity as God, His Word (Logos) and His Wisdom (Sophia)
• 325 Council of Nicaea adopted the Nicene
Creed - Christ as "God of God, Light of Light, very God
of very God, begotten, not made, being of one
substance with the Father".
• 1215 Fourth Lateran Council: "it is the Father
who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy
Spirit who proceeds") they are one, co-equal, co-
eternal and consubstantial, and each is God, whole and
entire. Accordingly, the whole work of creation and
grace is a single operation common to all three divine
persons, in which each shows forth what is proper to
him in the Trinity, ... all things are from the Father,
through the Son and in the Holy Spirit
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18. aquinas
• Summa Theologica
(1. God 2. ethics 3. Christ)
• God is first cause and love (Logos and
Shimjung)
• Human reason is an ethical disposition
(Logos divine mind)
• Christ is “unio” between Logos and
Human Nature
1225 1274
( “Unum Bonum” / greatest good / true self / original
mind / visio beata-the highest ethical spiritual goal)
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19. marsilio ficino
• Renaissance: Platonic
theology / Plotinus (theology,
philosophy, arcane, astrology, hermes
trismegistus, logos-eros) souls are pre-
existent and immortal / Eros
lifts humankind through art and
beauty to the divine
• synthesis not achieved
• universities-Aristotle /
translations missing /
Mirandola - Poliziano murdered
1433 1499
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20. enlightenment and deism
• deism - Logos as reason and nature
• cosmological argument / reason argument
• supreme being watchmaker grand architect
• Deistic thinking - Ancient Greeks, Heraclitus conceived of a logos, a supreme
rational principle, and said wisdom "by which all things are steered through all
things" was "both willing and unwilling to be called Zeus (God)."
• Plato envisaged God as a Demiurge or 'craftsman.' "Deism" is generally used to
refer to the movement toward natural theology or freethinking that occurred in
17th-century Europe, and specifically in Britain.
• David Hume countered divine reason and placed fear of the unknown as the root
of religion and self as subjective
c. 1650-1750
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21. theology to quantum 19-20th c.
• theological world: - Swedenborg, Wesley, Berdyaev,
Kierkegaard, Schliermacher, Barth
• philosophy - Enlightenment / Weimar
• Hegel: dialectic / Kant: noumenon / thing-in-itself /
intellectus archetypus / ectypus
• CG jung “archetypes” AN Whitehead
“occasions” (enter the quantum age - Logos as
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22. recent panpsychic philosophy
• Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant, Goethe, Schiller, Steiner, Jung,
Whitehead, Wilber - a move to Integral Thinking
• Jung, Whitehead, Pauli, Bohr, and Einstein explore the
cosmological Logos (Penrose - quantum and classical required)
• David Peat, David Bohm (implicate-explicate order)
Principle moves to holistic and quantum thinking. (SS + HS)
Spinoza Wilber Bohm Schiller
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a suitable typology
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23. two theologians
• Paul Tillich - the great synthesis ( Ungrund = Logos or ground of being /
Urbild = an archetypal cosmos - like CG Jung )
"essential perfection within the Godhead remains in a state of 'dreaming innocence,'
meaning that divine ideas, expressed in the divine mind, though they constitute the
essential perfection of all that can be, remain somehow unreal unless they are
expressed beyond God in existence." ... Tillich contends all created possibility is
expressed in its essential perfection by the father in the Logos. Therefore the self or
psyche can be viewed as a sacrament.
• Rudolph Bultman The Prologue to the Fourth Gospel came from sources outside
of Judaism, from "Mandaism"or a gnostic group. Bultman's overall conviction is that the
Gospel ought to be read as quite distant from "Judaism.' - problem
20th Century
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24. Genesis - John - Principle
• Genesis 1:27 Logos as image of God -
masculine and feminine
• John 1:1 Logos as Father and word made
flesh - Son (“In the beginning was the word” )
• UCT: Logos as creation and A& E restored
(SS + HS / masculine and feminine / reason law)
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25. Next - Logos for an Integral Age
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26. original image / ontology / being
“a theory of resemblance”
• Theory of the Original Image
I. Content of the Original Image
II. Structure of the Original Image
III. Traditional Ontologies and Unification Thought
• Ontology: A Theory of Being
I. Individual Truth Being
II Connected Being
• Theory of the Original Human Nature
I. A Being With Divine Image
II. A Being with Divine Character
III. A Being with Position
IV.Conclusion
Divine image =
Sung Sang
Hyungsang / ‘One’
(spirit-matter)
Fundamental
existence /
relatedness =
individual /
connected body
Divine image /
Logos =
individuality
character heart
creativity
position
connectedness
consciousness
http://www.unification-thought.org/index.html
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27. original substance
divine principle:
logos nature /
creativity
/ shimjung [heart,
sentiment and deep love +
principles]
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28. original image / divine image /
divine character
• Divine Image: SS (heart: intellect emotion will) - virtues
• Ideas laws principles math = HS and UPF - phenomenology
God - form and function / Man - resemblance or likeness
- Heart < > Logos < > Creativity -
Genesis 1: 27
imago dei / logos
John 1 word
John 1:14 christ
Logos
creation
humankind
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universal prime force
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29. inner sungsang (original ss)
sungsang
hungsang
•intellect
•emotion
•will
•ideas
•concepts
•laws
•math
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30. inner hyungsang (ss + hs) - 1. ideas 2. concepts 3.
laws principles 4. math / dynamics: universal prime force
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31. monism? the one and the many
• eidos - hyle (prime eidos - prime hyle)
• Aquinas - creation ex nihilo / idea-form / archetypal theory
• Summa Theologica 1. God 2. ethics 3. Christ / God is 1st
cause + love / human reason is an ethical disposition / Christ is unio
between logos and human nature - unum bonum = greatest good
original image and dual characteristics - a ‘theory of oneness’
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32. Logos and “attributes”
Yang-Masculine Yin-Feminine
Self - “anima and animus”
individual image
anima-animus - CSG p. 1635
potential surfaces in the second stage
inherent-innate characteristics /
accidents / attributes / substances 32
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33. yang yin attributes
yang yin
sung-sang
intellect
clarity, good memory,
distinctiveness,
wittiness
vague, forgetful,
unclear ideas,
seriousness
sung-sang emotion
pleasantness,
loudness, joy,
excitement
unpleasant, quietness,
sorrow, composuresung-sang
will
active, aggressive,
creative, carefree
passive, tolerance,
conservative, careful
hyungsanghyungsang
protuberances,
protrusions, convex,
front
sunken parts, orifices,
concave parts, rear
masculine-feminine self
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34. individual image
universal image
• heart - logos: the self
rooted in transcendent
virtues - rooted in SS
• Imago Dei / logos as
flesh / character / HS
• nature and nurture /
SS-HS + process
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35. individual image (mutation environment values)
DNA
epigenetic
environment
individuality
?
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36. divine character - attributes
• shared basics (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, supreme good,
supreme beauty, righteousness, love, creatorship, logos)
• Heart (shimjung - the emotional impulse to seek joy
through love)
• emotional impulse
• god of heart
• universe of heart (motivation theory)
• heart and culture
• heart and prime force
Heart
(love)
iss
ihs
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37. heart<>mind<>culture and
the big bang
• no freedom outside of the principle (logos creativity)
• 1. principle 2. responsibility 3. accomplishment
• self and culture - heart + prime force = the way of heaven = joy
Confucius / Kant - cultivation of character
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38. discrete nature and Logos/RNA
• “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with
God and the Word was God.”(Jn.1:1) (UC T: reason-law)
• DNA < transcription > RNA > Genes > protein expression
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Logos
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39. logos: reason-law
• principles of creation / spiral / blueprint
• creativity heart mind and resemblance /
heart-motivation theory / prime force (love not
thermodynamics-entropy) / Einstein Bohr Heisenberg Bohm
Jean Charon
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40. Logos
• reason law and principles / union of reason law / Logos
freedom - license? / Logos heart and love
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41. logos-creativity-resemblance
• creativity
• human creativity
• creation in likeness
• creativity - responsibility
• perfection or maturity in creativity
• original creativity and cultural activity
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42. harmony creativity neurons
• two bases: dynamic + synthetic
heart
SS HS
union
purpose
new being
>inner outer
heart
SS HS
union
purpose
new being
phenomenology
John Eccles: neuron to quantum
4 position
foundations
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43. undifferentiated “One”
numinous
God
of
Night
•emotion
•intellect
•will
•intuition
content
(sungsang)
• ideas
• concepts
•
principles
• math
• blueprints
/
plan
structure
(hyungsang)“heart”
(intention
concepts)
1:
inner
identity
maintaining
base
(unchanging
eternal
/
virtues)
2:
outer
developmental
base
Logos/PreLogos:
(pre-­‐energy
-­‐
potentiality)
Logos
created
sentient
mind
Logos
Eros
body
mass
Logos
dynamic-­‐field
quantum
/
classical
immanent
God
of
Day
1. 2.
3. 4.
HS SSstructure of the
original image
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44. c. mode of existence:
circular / spiral motion
1. circular motion
2. rotation and revolution
3. forms of circular motion
purpose
object
union
subject
<
>
circular motion in time
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45. layered structures: a
processive cosmos and DNA
circular motion time-space spiral / complexities
microcosmmacrocosm
transcendent immanent
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46. Logos-Eros / e = Mc2
pre plan
pre energy
sentient feeling
emotion
intellect
will
concepts
ideas / plans
principles
math
heart purpose
inherent directive nature
universal prime energy
protoconsciousness
Li
Yang
Logos
Karya
Chi
Yin
Panta rhei
Karana
Principles Process
atom
mind-body
cell
protoconscious
sentient mind-nature
consciousness
/ quantum
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47. purpose - created being -
resemblance - relationship
• intention - created being
• resemblance and relationship
• Logos - all things (resemblance, field, connected body)
• Logos as plan or blueprint - spatio/temporal
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48. unity in the structure of the
original Image
• structure
• invisible attributes of god
• invisible attributes of creation
• transcendent <> immanent
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49. unity in the structure
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M F
self
intellect (m)
intuition (f)
higher self
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50. ideal of creation - participation
• Transcendent
•Immanent
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51. Culture
aesthetics science
virtues
intersubjective
subjective objective
Self Nature
emotion intellect
will complexity
sentient unity
logos /
teleology
protoconscious mental-like qualia
social-global
environment
-unity in the structure-
systems archetypes
holons autopoeisis
Ideal of
creation
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52. origin division action Vs
thesis-antithesis-synthesis
• form-dynamics-synthesis (John Berthrong)(O-D-U principle)
• critique of communism - reason for failures
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potential for conflict
synthesis
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53. traditional ontologies and
UCT(comparisons)
Augustine / Aquinas
Li-Chi theory
Hegel-Absolute Spirit
Schopenhauer-blind will
Nietzsche-will to power
Marx-materialism
UC Ontology-Logos
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systems theory
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54. End
• Logos-Eros as self (ontology) continues as a separate
presentation: the original image - the way of heaven -
7 laws or principles - the innate self-true self
• correspondence - “When an individual being violates the law of the
universe, that being becomes unable to maintain its own existence.”
our place in the universethe heroes journey
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