Atheistic Platonism : a manifesto / Eric Charles Steinhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinhart, Eric Charles, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Palgrave frontiers in philosophy of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Atheism--Philosophy.

Atheism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations1

List of Figures

1: Renewing Atheism

1 A Cave Filled with Shadows

2 A New Approach to Platonism

3 Twilight Atheism

4 Abstract Objects and Possible Universes

5 Cosmological Explanations

6 Objective Moral Laws and Values

7 The Meaning and Purpose of Life

8 Souls and Life After Death

9 Atheistic Religion and Spirituality

10 Beyond Twilight Atheism

References

2: Starting at the Bottom

1 Starting with Nothing

2 Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

3 How the One Gives Existence to the Beings

4 Altars of Stone Shining in the Sun

5 How the One Avoids Contradicting Itself

6 How the One Maximizes Positive Existence

3: The One Emanates the Forms

1 A Relation Grows from the One

2 The One Emanates an Empty Object

3 The Self-Amplifying Power of the One

4 The One Emanates All Finitely Complex Objects

5 The One Emanates All Infinitely Complex Objects

6 The One Emanates an Unsurpassable Structure of Beings

7 An Ontological Argument for Nature

4: The Cosmic Forms

1 The Physical Forms of Universes

2 Building Geometrical Structures

3 Adding Causality: A Cosmic Computer

4 Adding Physical Things: The Game of Life

5 The Form of Our Universe

6 All Possible Universes Have Forms

7 The Library of Cosmic Forms

8 The Treasury of Bright Cosmic Forms

9 Lineages of Ever Better Cosmic Forms

5: The World Tree

1 From Abstract to Concrete

2 How the One Animates Forms

3 How Animated Forms Manifest Images

4 The Animation of the Treasury

5 The Treasury Manifests Concrete Relations

6 The Emergence of the Great World Tree

7 The Selective Power of the Good

6: The Emergence of Value

1 The Directionality Argument

2 The Laws of Logic

3 Value Is Distance from the One

4 Intrinsic Value Is Complexity

5 The First Universes

6 Simple Physical Things

7 Complex Physical Wholes

8 From Particles to Molecules

7: Emergence of Life

1 Self-Organization

2 Self-Maintaining and Self-Adapting Systems

3 Self-Regenerating Systems with Functional Parts

4 Proto-Biological Systems

5 Living Cells and Their Minds

6 Societies of Cells and Multicellular Organisms

7 Cooperative Relations Among Organisms

8 Societies of Complex Organisms

9 Our Universe

8: Platonism as a Way of Life

1 To Become Divine

2 The Ascent of the Soul

3 Degrees of Functional Excellence

4 Matter Is Impairment

5 Strategies for Transfiguring Souls

6 The Iterative Method of Transfiguration

7 Transfiguration Is Reprogramming the Body

8 Lifting Yourself Up by Your Own Bootstraps

9 Do-It-Yourself Transfigurations

10 Gaining Superhuman Virtue

11 Transhumanist Theosis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2022).

ISBN:

9783031177521

3031177525

Publisher Number:

99992475787

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Restricted for use by site license.