{"product_id":"realitys-fugue-reconciling-worldviews-in-philosophy-religion-and-science-9780271079318","title":"Realitys Fugue Reconciling Worldviews in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplores complex questions about the nature of reality, philosophy, and religion, and how we reconcile our often-conflicting beliefs about these questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For the student or teacher of cross-cultural philosophy and theology, and even the scientist, mathematician, and psychologist, Dr. Brainard’s work offers a fresh, penetrating interdisciplinary approach to studying the nature and products of human awareness. In a clear and rigorous manner, this work weaves together the themes of reality, consciousness, and existence with various frameworks of interpretation, challenging us to rethink our referential fields and the meanings we attach to terms such as ‘objective,’ ‘subjective,’ ‘universal,’ ‘particular,’ ‘atom,’ and ‘void.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Stephanie Theodorou,coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAnimal Experience: Consciousness and Emotions in the Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book invites you into the music of the world religions and the richness of timeless philosophical questions. Rather than siding with one answer or another, Brainard combines them together, each one dancing with the others like melodies in a classical fugue. The interplay of all the perspectives, he suggests, creates a new and richer level of awareness. Come join the dance . . .”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Philip Clayton,author of In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brainard presents a series of compelling arguments concerning the nature of reality and, more importantly, the connections between reality and awareness. In doing so, he engages with several important philosophical problems—among them Cartesian dualism, free will, and the problem of evil.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ian Alexander Cuthbertson \u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART ONE: What Is Real?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Predicament\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tOf Schizophrenia, Religions, and Conflicting Views of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tScience’s Limitations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThree Usual Ways to Resolve Conflicting Views of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tFugues and a Fourth Option\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tAnother Kind of Fugue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Views of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Need for New Philosophical Tools\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tFirst-Person versus Third-Person Views\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Two Views before and after René Descartes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Concept of “Reality”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThree Accounts of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART TWO: Three Themes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversals and Particulars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Third-Person View Divides into Universals and Particulars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSome Historical Roots of the Universal-Particular Distinction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tUniversals and Particulars as Principles of Nature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tUniversals and Particulars Have an Ambiguous Relationship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tUniversals, Particulars, and Accounts of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHinduism and the Third-Person View\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tWhy Hinduism?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tBrahman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Everyday World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tEnlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Five Cloaks of Brahman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Different Philosophical Schools\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary with Strengths and Weaknesses of this Strategy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwareness and Its Objects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tFirst-Person Accounts of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Cartesian Roots of Western First-Person Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tA Phenomenological Illustration of First-Person Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tAwareness and Conscious Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuddhism and the First-Person View\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tWhy Buddhism?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Buddha and the Four Nobel Truths\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Nature of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tUniversals as Arising through Causal Interaction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tEnlightenment and “Presence”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tHistory after the Buddha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary with Strengths and Weaknesses of this Strategy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dualism of Everyday Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tDualist Accounts of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tReality as What Is “Public”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tReality as What Is “Present”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\t\u003ci\u003ePhusis\u003c\/i\u003e versus \u003ci\u003eTechne\u003c\/i\u003e: The Natural versus the Artificial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tIndividual and Collective Agency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern Theism and the Dualist View\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tEveryday Dualism versus a Higher Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tPolytheism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tFrom Polytheism to Monotheism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tPhilosophical Influences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tHuman Nature and Life Goals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary with Strengths and Weaknesses of this Strategy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART THREE: Reality As Fugue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part Three\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwareness’ Two Roles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tWho Are We Really?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tAwareness’ Two Roles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSitting in a Café\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tThe Consciousness Problem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtifacts of Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tA Definition for Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tA Mosaic of Groups: CORs, Classes, and CODs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tDescartes Reconsidered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tOur Concept of Self in Space and Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhysical Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tReality as Emergent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tMathematics and the Behavior of the Universe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tTwo Pictures of Physical Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tQuantum Strangeness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSchrödinger's Cat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligions Revisited\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tPhilosophy, Religion, and Mystery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tA Riddle Blocks Our Way\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tAt Home in the Everyday Puzzle of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tGateless Gates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e•\tMoving On\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostscript 1: Scale as a Dimension of Reality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostscript 2: A Definition for Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerms Defined in this Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary of Hindu and 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