The Fountain of Philosophy will explain how thinking works, how we intuit what is corrent/incorrect thinking, how we use thinking to our evolutionary advantage, how we paper over the imperfections and incongruences in our thinking, and how we haggle over political issues in the mistaken belief that there are "right" arguments on our side and "wrong" arguments on the opponents' side.
The book will also set out how civilisations are built on rightous people's ad hoc ideas, how those ideas turn into tradition and how tradition boosts welfare in a civilisation.
Chapter 1
- What Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume and Kant might write in light of all we know today.
- What computing, programming and relational databases teach us about the way we think and organise information.
- Why things are unknowable and how they can still be explored sufficiently for our practical purposes.
- A number of paradoxes (from Descartes through maths to all Cretans are liers to demonstrate that true knowledge is ultimately unattainable.
- How we should learn to live with paradoxes and tolerate some forms of it while rejecting other forms.
- What moral rules are, what their function is, and how we leap over the gap between statements and behavioural rules.
- How emotions and intuitions govern our intellect.
- How we argue using undefined terms, appeal to non-existent common sense, use ex cathedra statements and circular arguments.
- There is no such thing as valid and invalid argumentation, but there are more valid and less valid procedures in comparison with each other.
- How civilisations are established, how they flourish and how they die.
- How traditions keep civilisations in good shape.
- How traditions can always be challenged and how they can be defended.
- How religion helps keep civilisations together.
- How religions can be benchmarked against each other.
- How every religion can be challenged and how it can be defended.
- How you can succeed with this blueprint of human thinking.
- Why and how you should spread this form of enlightenment in the world.
Freedom, democracy and Justice in the world
Chapter 9
The wealth of nations and citizens
tbc.
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