By Stephen Palmquist (stevepq@hkbu.edu.hk)

 

I.1:     Four Branches of Philosophy ...................................................5

I.2:     Three Types of Philosophy ......................................................6

I.3:     The Four Goals of Doing Philosophy .......................................7       

I.4:     The Truth Value of a Myth ....................................................10

I.5:     The Cycle of History in Ancient Greece...................................11

I.6:     Four Thought Forms in Ancient Greece ..................................12

I.7:     A Map of the Four Human Thought Forms .............................13       

II.1:    The Development of the Individual .........................................15

II.2:    The Four Powers of the Mind ................................................16

II.3:    Four Aims of Human Thinking ..............................................17

II.4:    The Four Elements in Ancient Greece ....................................18

II.5:    The Three Great Greek Philosophers ......................................20

II.6:    The Method of Dialogue ........................................................22

II.7:    Plato's Cave .........................................................................23 

II.8:    The Three Powers of the Soul ................................................25 

II.9:    Aristotle's Four Life (Soul) Forms .........................................37 

II.10: The Prime Mover as Final Cause ............................................38 

           

III.1:  Descartes' Tree of Philosophy ................................................33

III.2:  Descartes' Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem........................35

III.3:  Four Key Philosophical Methods ............................................37

III.4:  Kant's Critiques and Their Standpoints  ..................................40

III.5:  Kant's Transcendental Boundary ............................................41

III.6:  Kant's Four Philosophical Questions .......................................41

III.7:  Descartes vs. Kant on Plato and Aristotle ................................42

III.8:  Kant's Copernican Revolution ................................................43

III.9:  Kant's Twelvefold Division of Categories ...............................44

III.10:The Problem of Kantian "Ideas" ............................................45         

IV.1:  Two Truth Tables  ................................................................55

IV.2:  Two Methods of Argumentation .............................................58

IV.3:  Analytic and Synthetic Propositions  .......................................59

IV.4:  Four Perspectives on Knowledge  ...........................................60 

IV.5:  The Four Fundamental Laws of Logic  ...................................62

IV.6:  The Analytic and Synthetic Domains .......................................65

IV.7:  Hegel's Dialectical Method .....................................................66

IV.8:  Three Types of Analytic-Synthetic Distinction .........................67         

V.1:   The Point as a Map of an Identical Relation .............................69 

V.2:   Two Ways of Mapping a 1LAR ..............................................70 

V.3:   Two Ways of Mapping a 2LAR ..............................................71 

V.4:   Two Examples of 2LARs, Mapped onto the Cross ....................73 

V.5:   A Map of the 6LAR in the I Ching .........................................75 

V.6:   The 2LAR Implicit in the Tai Chi  .........................................78

V.7:   The Triangle as a Map of a 1LSR ...........................................78

V.8:   The Star of David as a 6CR ...................................................80

V.9:   The Circle as a Map for a 12CR .............................................80       

VI.1:  Wittgenstein's "Ladder" ........................................................87  

VI.2:  The Primary Existential Distinction ........................................93

VI.3:  Hermes as Messenger of the Gods .........................................126

VI.4:  The Hermeneutic Spiral .......................................................127

VI.5:  Analysis and Synthesis as Complementary Functions ................97     

VII.1:  The Three Stages in Jonathan's Life .....................................105

VII.2:  Wisdom As Returning to the Boundary ................................105  

VII.3:  The Tree of Philosophy  .....................................................110

VII.4:  The Four Cognitive States  ..................................................112  

VII.5:  The Uncertainty of Inductive Knowledge .............................118        

VIII.1:  Two Perceptual Perspectives-A Goblet or Two Faces? .......125

VIII.2:  The Theoretical and Practical Standpoints ...........................129 

VIII.3:  The Contrast between Subjective and Objective Ends  ...........133

VIII.4:  Nietzsche's Transvaluation of Values  .................................135

VIII.5:  Nietzsche's Tight-Rope  .....................................................137       

IX.1:  Four Forms of Republican Political System ...........................145 

IX.2:  Aristotle's Six Forms of Political System ...............................146 

IX.3:  Aristotle's Framework as a 6CR ...........................................147 

IX.4:  God's Transvaluation of Values ............................................152

IX.5:  Four Forms of Monarchical Political System .........................153

IX.6:  Eight Basic Types of Political System ...................................154       

X.1:   The Two Kinds of Breakthrough ..........................................163  

X.2:   Feeling as Kant's Bridge between Knowing and Willing ..........176

X.3:   Kant's Four Forms of Aesthetic Judgment .............................177

X.4:   The Four Moments in a Judgment of Beauty ..........................179 

X.5:   Tillich's Ontology of Love ...................................................184

X.6:   The Four Basic Types of Love .............................................185

X.7:   The Mystery and Paradox of Love and Beauty .......................188      

XI.1:  The Numinous Breakthrough and the Idea of the Holy ............169

XI.2:  The Logic of Signs and Symbols ...........................................171 

XI.3:  The Four Stages in Kant's System of Religion ........................249 

XI.4:  The Archetypal Characteristics of the Invisible Church ...........257 

XI.5:  The Twelve Steps in Kant's Religious System .........................260     

XII.1:  Inappropriate Responses to Two Kinds of Fear  ....................191

XII.2:  Kierkegaard's Three Life Stages and Two Leaps ...................192

XII.3:  The Ontological Origins of Angst and Sin ............................192

XII.4:  Courage in the Face of Non-Being .......................................196 

XII.5:  Four Basic Ways of Conceiving Life After Death  .................199

XII.6:  Two Views of Life and Death.............................................201       

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