The triadic structure of the mind : outlines of a philosophical system / Francesco Belfiore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belfiore, Francesco, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Philosophy.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (615 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, 2017.

Summary:

In this third edition of The Triadic Structure of the Mind, Francesco Belfiore begins from the basic ontological conception of the structure and functioning of the "mind" or "spirit" as an evolving, conscious triad composed of intellect, sensitiveness, and power, each exerting a selfish and a moral activity.

Contents:

The Triadic Structure Of The Mind

Contents

Figures

Tables

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

Chapter 1-The Structure and Functioning of the Mind

1.1-THE TRIADIC-BIDIRECTIONAL MIND: AN OVERVIEW

1.1.1-From Descartes's "Cogito" to the Triadic Structure of the Mind

1.1.1.1-Further Considerations on the Cartesian "Cogito"

1.1.1.2-The Triadic Structure of the Mind as Understood by Reflections Other than the "Cogito"

1.1.1.3-Interrelation of the Three Mind Components, of Their Activities, and Their Products

1.1.1.4-The Bidirectional Activity of the Mind and the Origin of the Moral Values

1.1.1.5-Mind as an Evolving Entity, whose Evolution is the Moral Good

1.1.1.6-Defining the Triadic-Bidirectional Mind

1.1.1.7-Advantages of the Conception of the Unitary-Triadic Mind

1.1.1.8-Overview of the Judgment Criteria for the Various Mind Products

1.1.1.8.1- Judgment by "Specific Criteria"

1.1.1.8.2- Judgment by the "Value Criterion," Valid for All Mind Products

1.1.1.9-The Triadic-Bidirectional Mind and the Rest of the World

1.1.1.10-A Note on Terminology

1.1.2-The Mind: Its Outward (or Selfish) Activities

1.1.2.1-Intellect: Its Outward or Selfish Activity

1.1.2.1.1-Ideas, Sentiments, and Actions as Objects of Intellect

1.1.2.1.2-Intellect as Support of Sensitiveness and Power: "Imaginary Ideas" and "Ideas-of-Projects"

1.1.2.1.3-The Branches of the Knowledge of Mind

1.1.2.2-Sensitiveness: Its Outward Activity

1.1.2.2.1-Sensitiveness and Its Outward Products: Sentiments

1.1.2.2.2-Sensitiveness as Support of Intellect and of Power

1.1.2.3-Power: Its Outward Activity and the Physical World

1.1.2.3.1-Power and Actions

1.1.2.3.2-The Physical World

1.1.2.3.3-Power as Support of Intellect and Sensitiveness.

1.1.3-The Mind: Its Inward (or Moral) Activities and the Consciousness

1.2-THE CONCEPTION OF THE UNITARY-TRIADIC MIND COMPARED TO THE MAIN THEORIES OF MIND

1.2.1-The Main "Dualistic" Theories of Mind

1.2.2-The Main "Non-Dualistic" and "Non-Monistic" Theories of Mind

1.2.3-The Main "Monistic" Theories of Mind

1.2.3.1-The "Triadic Monism" and Other Monistic Theories of Mind

1.2.3.2-The Uniqueness of the "Triadic-Bidirectional Mind": Comparison with Other Philosophical Doctrines

1.2.4-The Epistemological Implications of the Conception of the Unitary-Triadic Mind

1.2.5- Introspection and Self-Knowledge

1.2.5.1-General Concepts

1.2.5.2-Intellect and the Rational Awareness

1.2.5.3-Sensitiveness and the Emotional Awareness

1.2.5.4-Power and the Practical Awareness

1.2.5.5-Re-Interpretation of Some Views on Introspection and Self-Knowledge

Chapter 2-A Comprehensive Ontological Conception: The Triadic Monism

2.1-THE TRIADIC MONISM

2.2-COMPARISON WITH OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTIONS

2.2.1-Comparison with Other Unitary Conceptions

2.2.2-Comparison with Other Conceptions Based on a "One and Trine" Entity

2.2.2.1-Comparison with Other Philosophical Systems

2.2.2.2-Comparison with Some Religious Conceptions

Chapter 3-Intellect and Its Activity: Knowledge and Its Limits

3.1-THE KNOWLEDGE OF POWER: THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND THE ACTIONS OF MAN

3.1.1-The Knowledge of the Physical World

3.1.1.1-Objects and the Ideas-of-Object

3.1.1.1.1-Individual Objects of the Supra-Molecular World

3.1.1.1.2-Identical Particles of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World

3.1.1.2-Objects of the Physical World

3.1.1.2.1-Similar and Yet Diverse Objects of the Supra-Molecular World

3.1.1.2.2-The Classes of Identical Particles of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World.

3.1.1.2.3-A Unifying Hypothesis of the Physical World: A World Made of Classes of Similar and Yet Diverse Objects

3.1.1.3-The Creation of "Classes" and "Sets"

3.1.1.3.1-Heterogeneous Classes Made of Similar but not Identical Objects

3.1.1.3.2-Homogeneous Classes Made of Identical Particles

3.1.1.3.3-A Unifying Hypothesis: Are All Classes Made of Similar and Yet Diverse Objects?

3.1.1.4-Objects, Properties, and Classes: Further Considerations

3.1.1.4.1-Physical versus Non-Physical Objects and Classes

3.1.1.4.2-More on Objects and Properties

3.1.1.5-Classes and the Knowledge Process

3.1.1.6-Classes and Some Logical Paradoxes

3.1.1.7-Classes, Numbers, Mathematics and Geometry

3.1.1.8-Relations between Objects and Classes

3.1.1.9-Relations in Static Conditions

3.1.1.9.1-Relation of the Object with Itself (Identification)

3.1.1.9.2-Relations between Objects (or Inter-Objects Relations)

3.1.1.9.3-Object-Class Relations

3.1.1.9.4-Relations Class-to-Class (or Inter-Classes Relations)

3.1.1.10-Relations in Dynamic Conditions (Dynamic Relations): Events

3.1.1.10.1-Dynamic Relations of the Object with Itself (Events Affecting a Single Object)

3.1.1.10.2-Dynamic Relations between Objects: (I) The Cause-Effect Relation

3.1.1.10.3-Dynamic Relations between Objects: (II) Relations of Action

3.1.1.10.4-The Creation of Transformation Laws (Scientific Laws)

3.1.1.11-The Starting Point of Knowledge and Its Progressive Development

3.1.1.11.1-The Subject-Object Relation as the Starting Point of Knowledge

3.1.1.11.2-Subject-Object Relation and Quantum Mechanics

3.1.1.11.3-The Limits of Knowledge: The "Phenomenon" and the Noumenon"

3.1.1.11.4-The Role of the Subconscious.

3.1.1.12-Acquisition of New Knowledge of the Physical World by Inductive Reasoning: From Properties to Objects, Classes, Events, Laws and Theories

3.1.1.12.1-Assembling Properties into Objects and Observed Changes into Events

3.1.1.12.2-Grouping Objects into Classes

3.1.1.12.3-Grouping Events into Transformation Laws (Scientific Laws) and Theories

3.1.1.13-Utilization of Acquired Knowledge by Deductive Reasoning: Explanations, Previsions and Applications

3.1.1.13.1-Explanations

3.1.1.13.2-Previsions

3.1.1.13.3-Applications (Experiments and Inventions)

3.1.1.14-Methods of Reasoning for the Acquisition of New Knowledge

3.1.1.14.1-Propositions about Objects, Events, Classes and Laws

3.1.1.14.2-Particular Propositions about Objects and Events of the Supra-Molecular World

3.1.1.14.3-Propositions about Classes and Transformation Laws of the Supra-Molecular World

3.1.1.14.4-Propositions About Identical Particles (and Their Homogenous Classes) and Regular Events (and Their General Laws) of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World

3.1.1.15-Methods of Reasoning in the Utilization of Acquired Knowledge

3.1.1.15.1-Arguments about Objects and Classes of the Supra-Molecular World

3.1.1.15.2-Arguments about Objects (Particles) and Classes of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World

3.1.1.15.3-Arguments about Events and Laws of the Supra-Molecular World

3.1.1.15.4-Arguments about Events and Laws of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World

3.1.1.15.5-Comments to the Basic Logical Principles

3.1.1.15.6-More on Logical Principles

3.1.1.16-Terminology about Precision/Imprecision and Certainty/Uncertainty of Knowledge and Previsions

3.1.2-Knowledge of Power and Actions

3.2-KNOWLEDGE OF INTELLECT AND IDEAS (INTELLECT AND IDEAS AS AN OBJECT OF KNOWLEDGE)

3.3-KNOWLEDGE OF SENSITIVENESS AND SENTIMENTS

3.4-LANGUAGE.

3.4.1-General Concepts on Language

3.4.1.1-What is Language?

3.4.1.2-Language as Speech Act

3.4.2-Analyzing Language

3.4.2.1-Language as Expression of Knowledge

3.4.2.1.1-Language as an Expression of Ideas and Moral Thoughts (Knowledge) about the Physical World and about Ideas and Moral Thoughts Themselves

3.4.2.1.2-Language as an Expression of the Knowledge of Sentiments and of Moral Feelings

3.4.2.2-Language as an Expression of Sentiments and Moral Feelings (Poetic Language, Command and Moral Language)

Chapter 4-Sensitiveness and Its Activity

4.1-SENSITIVENESS AS A GENERATOR OF SENTIMENTS

4.1.1-Sentiments and Their Objects

4.1.2-Sentiments as Related to Ideas and Actions

4.1.3-Judgment of Sentiments

4.2-EXPRESSION OF SENTIMENTS AND WORKS OF ART

4.2.1-Expression of Sentiments by Language and the Literary Arts

4.2.1.1-Literary Arts

4.2.1.2-Autonomy of Art

4.2.1.3-Artistic versus Scientific Content

4.2.1.4-Art as Expression of Universal Sentiments

4.2.1.5-Art Critics and the Objectivity of the Value of Art

4.2.1.6-Art and Beauty

4.2.1.7 -Representation, Expression and Understanding

4.2.1.8 -The Problem of Fiction

4.2.1.9-Comment on the View of Art as Expression of Universal Sentiments

4.2.2-Expression of Sentiments by Sound

4.2.3-Expression of Sentiments by Imaging (Visual Arts)

4.2.3.1-Painting and Sculpture

4.2.3.2-Architecture

4.2.3.3-Expression of Sentiments by a Combined Use of Language, Sound and Imaging (Behavior, Theater, Cinema)

4.2.4-The Works of Art as Aesthetic Objects

4.2.5-Art and Morality

4.3-COMPARISON WITH OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTIONS OF ART: CRITIQUE AND REINTERPRETATION

4.3.1-The Main Aesthetic Theories: An Overview

4.3.1.1-Expressivism

4.3.1.2-Hedonism

4.3.1.3-Cognitivism

4.3.1.4-Institutionalism

4.3.1.5-Deconstruction.

4.3.1.6-Structuralism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-7618-6856-9

0-7618-6857-7

OCLC:

963580182