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The Triadic Structure of the Mind

Outlines of a Philosophical System
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 2014

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In 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 or moral activity. Based on this concept, Belfiore has developed a coherent philosophical system, through which he offers fresh solutions in the fields of ontology, knowledge, language, aesthetic, ethics, politics, and law. The second edition of the book includes a more extensive treatment of the topics addressed in the first edition, the introduction of new concepts, and the inclusion of additional thinkers, whose views have been discussed and reinterpreted.

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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6366-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-6367-0
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
593
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Figures No access
    3. Tables No access
    4. Preface to the First Edition No access
    5. Preface to the Second Edition No access
        1. 1.1.1.1—Further Considerations on the Cartesian “Cogito” No access
        2. 1.1.1.2—The Triadic Structure of the Mind as Understood by Reflections Other than the “Cogito” No access
        3. 1.1.1.3—Interrelation of the Three Mind Components, of Their Activities, and Their Products No access
        4. 1.1.1.4—The Bidirectional Activity of the Mind and the Origin of the Moral Values No access
        5. 1.1.1.5—Mind as an Evolving Entity, whose Evolution is the Moral Good No access
        6. 1.1.1.6—Defining the Triadic-Bidirectional Mind No access
        7. 1.1.1.7—Advantages of the Conception of the Unitary-Triadic Mind No access
          1. 1.1.1.8.1—Judgment by “Specific Criteria” No access
          2. 1.1.1.8.2—Judgment by the “Value Criterion,” Valid for All Mind Products No access
        9. 1.1.1.9—The Triadic-Bidirectional Mind and the Rest of the World No access
        10. 1.1.1.10—A Note on Terminology No access
          1. 1.1.2.1.1—Ideas, Sentiments, and Actions as Objects of Intellect No access
          2. 1.1.2.1.2—Intellect as Support of Sensitiveness and Power: “Imaginary Ideas” and “Ideas-of-Projects” No access
          3. 1.1.2.1.3—The Branches of the Knowledge of Mind No access
          1. 1.1.2.2.1—Sensitiveness and Its Outward Products: Sentiments No access
          2. 1.1.2.2.2—Sensitiveness as Support of Intellect and of Power No access
          1. 1.1.2.3.1—Power and Actions No access
          2. 1.1.2.3.2—The Physical World No access
          3. 1.1.2.3.3—Power as Support of Intellect and Sensitiveness No access
      3. 1.1.3—The Mind: Its Inward (or Moral) Activities and the Consciousness No access
      1. 1.2.1—The Main “Dualistic” Theories of Mind No access
      2. 1.2.2—The Main “Non-Dualistic” and “Non-Monistic” Theories of Mind No access
        1. 1.2.3.1—The “Triadic Monism” and Other Monistic Theories of Mind No access
        2. 1.2.3.2—The Uniqueness of the “Triadic-Bidirectional Mind”: Comparison with Other Philosophical Doctrines No access
      4. 1.2.4—The Epistemological Implications of the Conception of the Unitary-Triadic Mind No access
        1. 1.2.5.1—General Concepts No access
        2. 1.2.5.2—Intellect and the Rational Awareness No access
        3. 1.2.5.3—Sensitiveness and the Emotional Awareness No access
        4. 1.2.5.4—Power and the Practical Awareness No access
        5. 1.2.5.5—Re-Interpretation of Some Views on Introspection and Self-Knowledge No access
    1. 2.1—The Triadic Monism No access
      1. 2.2.1—Comparison with Other Unitary Conceptions No access
        1. 2.2.2.1—Comparison with Other Philosophical Systems No access
        2. 2.2.2.2—Comparison with Some Religious Conceptions No access
          1. 3.1.1.1.1—Individual Objects of the Supra-Molecular World No access
          2. 3.1.1.1.2—Identical Particles of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World No access
          1. 3.1.1.2.1—Similar and Yet Diverse Objects of the Supra-Molecular World No access
          2. 3.1.1.2.2—The Classes of Identical Particles of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World No access
          3. 3.1.1.2.3—A Unifying Hypothesis of the Physical World: A World Made of Classes of Similar and Yet Diverse Objects No access
          1. 3.1.1.3.1—Heterogeneous Classes Made of Similar but not Identical Objects No access
          2. 3.1.1.3.2—Homogeneous Classes Made of Identical Particles No access
          3. 3.1.1.3.3—A Unifying Hypothesis: Are All Classes Made of Similar and Yet Diverse Objects? No access
          1. 3.1.1.4.1—Physical versus Non-Physical Objects and Classes No access
          2. 3.1.1.4.2—More on Objects, and Properties No access
        5. 3.1.1.5—Classes and the Knowledge Process No access
        6. 3.1.1.6—Classes and Some Logical Paradoxes No access
        7. 3.1.1.7—Classes, Numbers, Mathematics and Geometry No access
        8. 3.1.1.8—Relations Between Objects and Classes No access
          1. 3.1.1.9.1—Relation of the Object with Itself (Identification) No access
          2. 3.1.1.9.2—Relations Between Objects (or Inter-Objects Relations) No access
          3. 3.1.1.9.3—Object-Class Relations No access
          4. 3.1.1.9.4—Relations Class-to-Class (or Inter-Classes Relations) No access
          1. 3.1.1.10.1—Dynamic Relations of the Object with Itself (Events Affecting a Single Object) No access
          2. 3.1.1.10.2—Dynamic Relations Between Objects: (I) The Cause-Effect Relation No access
          3. 3.1.1.10.3—Dynamic Relations Between Objects: (II) Relations of Action No access
          4. 3.1.1.10.4—The Creation of Transformation Laws (Scientific Laws) No access
          1. 3.1.1.11.1—The Subject-Object Relation as the Starting Point of Knowledge No access
          2. 3.1.1.11.2—Subject-Object Relation and Quantum Mechanics No access
          3. 3.1.1.11.3—The Limits of Knowledge: The “Phenomenon” and the “Noumenon” No access
          4. 3.1.1.11.4—The Role of the Subconscious No access
          1. 3.1.1.12.1—Assembling Properties into Objects and Observed Changes into Events No access
          2. 3.1.1.12.2—Grouping Objects into Classes No access
          3. 3.1.1.12.3—Grouping Events into Transformation Laws (Scientific Laws) and Theories No access
          1. 3.1.1.13.1—Explanations No access
          2. 3.1.1.13.2—Previsions No access
          3. 3.1.1.13.3—Applications (Experiments and Inventions) No access
          1. 3.1.1.14.1—Propositions about Objects, Events, Classes and Laws No access
          2. 3.1.1.14.2—Particular Propositions about Objects and Events of the Supra-Molecular World No access
          3. 3.1.1.14.3—Propositions about Classes and Transformation Laws of the Supra-Molecular World No access
          4. 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 No access
          1. 3.1.1.15.1—Arguments about Objects and Classes of the Supra-Molecular World No access
          2. 3.1.1.15.2—Arguments about Objects (Particles) and Classes of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World No access
          3. 3.1.1.15.3—Arguments about Events and Laws of the Supra-Molecular World No access
          4. 3.1.1.15.4—Arguments about Events and Laws of the Molecular-Atomic-Subatomic World No access
          5. 3.1.1.15.5—Comments to the Basic Logical Principles No access
          6. 3.1.1.15.6—More on Logical Principles No access
        16. 3.1.1.16—Terminology about Precision/Imprecision and Certainty/Uncertainty of Knowledge and Previsions No access
      2. 3.1.2—Knowledge of Power and Actions No access
    2. 3.2—Knowledge of Intellect and Ideas (Intellect and Ideas as an Object of Knowledge) No access
    3. 3.3—Knowledge of Sensitiveness and Sentiments No access
        1. 3.4.1.1—What is Language? No access
        2. 3.4.1.2—Language as Speech Act No access
          1. 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 No access
          2. 3.4.2.1.2—Language as an Expression of the Knowledge of Sentiments and of Moral Feelings No access
        2. 3.4.2.2—Language as an Expression of Sentiments and Moral Feelings (Poetic Language, Command and Moral Language) No access
      1. 4.1.1—Sentiments and Their Objects No access
      2. 4.1.2—Sentiments as Related to Ideas and Actions No access
      3. 4.1.3—Judgment of Sentiments No access
        1. 4.2.1.1—Literary Arts No access
        2. 4.2.1.2—Autonomy of Art No access
        3. 4.2.1.3—Artistic versus Scientific Content No access
        4. 4.2.1.4—Art as Expression of Universal Sentiments No access
        5. 4.2.1.5—Art Critics and the Objectivity of the Value of Art No access
        6. 4.2.1.6—Art and Beauty No access
        7. 4.2.1.7—Representation, Expression and Understanding No access
        8. 4.2.1.8—The Problem of Fiction No access
        9. 4.2.1.9—Comment on the View of Art as Expression of Universal Sentiments No access
      2. 4.2.2—Expression of Sentiments by Sound No access
        1. 4.2.3.1—Painting and Sculpture No access
        2. 4.2.3.2—Architecture No access
        3. 4.2.3.3—Expression of Sentiments by a Combined Use of Language, Sound and Imaging (Behavior, Theater, Cinema) No access
      4. 4.2.4—The Works of Art as Aesthetic Objects No access
      5. 4.2.5—Art and Morality No access
        1. 4.3.1.1—Expressivism No access
        2. 4.3.1.2—Hedonism No access
        3. 4.3.1.3—Cognitivism No access
        4. 4.3.1.4—Institutionalism No access
        5. 4.3.1.5—Deconstruction No access
        6. 4.3.1.6—Structuralism No access
        7. 4.3.1.7—Representationalism No access
        8. 4.3.1.8—Normative Theory of Art No access
        9. 4.3.1.9—Post-Modern, Hermeneutic, and Existentialist Views on Art No access
        10. 4.3.1.10—Comment No access
        1. 4.3.2.1—Pre-Kantian Conceptions: Hume's Aesthetics No access
          1. 4.3.2.2.1—Kant and the Aesthetic Judgment No access
          2. 4.3.2.2.2—The Genius No access
        3. 4.3.2.3—Schopenhauer on Art No access
        4. 4.3.2.4—Hegel on Art No access
        5. 4.3.2.5—Tolstoy on Art No access
          1. 4.3.2.6.1—Croce's Aesthetics No access
          2. 4.3.2.6.2—Collingwood's Aesthetics No access
        7. 4.3.2.7—Dewey's Aesthetics No access
        8. 4.3.2.8—Art and Analytic Philosophy: Wittgenstein's Aesthetics No access
          1. 4.3.2.9.1—Lyotard's Aesthetics No access
          2. 4.3.2.9.2—Heidegger's Aesthetics No access
          3. 4.3.2.9.3—Gadamer's Aesthetics No access
          4. 4.3.2.9.4—Vattimo's Aesthetics No access
          5. 4.3.2.9.5—Sartre's Aesthetics No access
        10. 4.3.2.10—Other Views on Art and Aesthetics No access
      3. 4.3.3—The Definition of Art No access
      4. 4.3.4—The Effects of Arts on Society No access
    1. 5.1—Power as a Generator of Actions No access
    2. 5.2—Actions as Related to Ideas and Sentiments No access
      1. 5.3.1—Judgment of Actions by the Strength Criterion No access
        1. 5.3.2.1—Universal Actions and The Origin of Human Society No access
        2. 5.3.2.2—From the Particular Action of the Individual to the Universal Actions in Society No access
          1. 5.3.2.3.1—Correct-Rating of Actions Entails a "Power-Driven Society" No access
          2. 5.3.2.3.2—Wrong-Rating of Actions Entails a "Violence-Injured Society" No access
          3. 5.3.2.3.3—Spinoza's Thought and the Justification of Power No access
          4. 5.3.2.3.4—The Conditions for a Meaningful Voting No access
          5. 5.3.2.3.5—Social Institutions and Their Nature No access
          1. 5.3.2.4.1—The Finality of Laws (and of the Universal Actions that They Define) and Political Parties No access
          2. 5.3.2.4.2—The Nature of Laws No access
          3. 5.3.2.4.3—Constitution and Constitutional Norms No access
          4. 5.3.2.4.4—Adjudication No access
      1. 6.1.1—Moral Events No access
      2. 6.1.2—Characteristics Peculiar to Moral Events No access
        1. 6.1.3.1—Understanding the Moral Good and Morally-Good Acts No access
        2. 6.1.3.2—Moral Thoughts and Moral Principles versus Moral Feelings and Moral Values No access
        3. 6.1.3.3—Morally-Good and Morally-Bad States No access
          1. 6.1.3.4.1—Distinction between the "Moral" and the "Selfish" Mind Activities and Products (and Their Judgment Criteria) No access
          2. 6.1.3.4.2—Relationship between the Moral and the Selfish Mind Activities and Products (and Their Judgment Criteria) No access
        5. 6.1.3.5—Outward versus Inward Mind Activities: Some Examples No access
        6. 6.1.3.6—A Very Short Metaethical Comment No access
      4. 6.1.4—Examples of Selfish/Personal Actions and Moral Acts No access
      1. 6.2.1—Theories of Consciousness No access
      2. 6.2.2—Consciousness and the Brain No access
          1. 6.3.1.1.1—Judgment of Moral Thoughts and Conceptions No access
          2. 6.3.1.1.2—Judgment of Moral Feelings No access
          3. 6.3.1.1.3—Judgment of Moral Acts No access
        2. 6.3.1.2—Mention to Other Moral Conceptions No access
        3. 6.3.1.3—Mind Evolution versus Other Proposed Forces that Move Mind and the World No access
        4. 6.3.1.4—Demonstrative Examples: Dialogs between a "Good" Person and His Opponents No access
        1. 6.3.2.1—Judging Moral Events by the Value Criterion No access
        2. 6.3.2.2—Particular versus Universal Mind Products: An Overview No access
      3. 6.3.3—Morality and Politics No access
        1. 6.3.4.1—Equality between Individuals: The Right to Equal Treatment No access
        2. 6.3.4.2—Inequality between Individuals: The Right to Unequal (Individualized) Treatment No access
      5. 6.3.5—Supererogation, Moral Formalism, and Fanaticism No access
        1. 6.4.1.1—General Aspects No access
          1. 6.4.1.2.1—"Moral Choices" versus "Procedural Choices" No access
          2. 6.4.1.2.2—Ground "Morally-Certain" Moral Choices No access
          3. 6.4.1.2.3—"Morally-Certain/Cognitively-Imprecise" Moral Choices No access
          4. 6.4.1.2.4—"Cognitively-Imprecise/Predictively-Uncertain" Procedural Choices No access
        3. 6.4.1.3—Moral Choices in the Private and Public (Political) Life No access
          1. 6.4.1.4.1—The Internalist Position No access
          2. 6.4.1.4.2—The Externalist Position No access
          3. 6.4.1.4.3—Conclusion on Moral Motivation No access
      2. 6.4.2—On the Weakness of the Will No access
      3. 6.4.3—Defining Moral Responsibility No access
      4. 6.4.4—Terminology of Mind Products and the Disappearance of the "Will" No access
        1. 6.5.1.1—Freedom of Selfish/Personal Decisions and Actions No access
        2. 6.5.1.2—Freedom of Moral Decisions and Moral Acts (Free Will) No access
      2. 6.5.2—Choosing Between Moral Projects and Selfish/Personal Projects No access
        1. 6.5.3.1—Incompatibilist Theories No access
        2. 6.5.3.2—Critical Comment No access
      4. 6.5.4—Apparent Freedom Is Due to the Extreme Complexity of the Brain No access
    6. 6.6—Moral Responsibility Without Freedom No access
    7. 6.7—The Language of Morality (Moral Language) No access
      1. 7.1.1—Russell's thought No access
      2. 7.1.2—Wittgenstein's thought No access
      3. 7.1.3—Quine's thought No access
        1. 7.2.1.1—Nietzsche and Post-Modernism No access
        2. 7.2.1.2—Kuhn's Thought No access
        3. 7.2.1.3—Feyerabend's Thought No access
        4. 7.2.1.4—Rorty's Thought No access
        5. 7.2.1.5—Lyotard No access
        6. 7.2.1.6—Vattimo and Post-Modernism No access
        7. 7.2.1.7—A Short Comment of Post-Modernism No access
        1. 7.2.2.1—My Hermeneutic Theory No access
          1. 7.2.2.2.1—Nietzsche and Hermeneutics No access
          2. 7.2.2.2.2—Peirce's Thought No access
          3. 7.2.2.2.3—Heidegger's Thought No access
          4. 7.2.2.2.4—Gadamer's Thought No access
          5. 7.2.2.2.5—Habermas's Thought No access
          6. 7.2.2.2.6—Vattimo and Hermeneutics No access
          7. 7.2.2.2.7—Taylor's Thought No access
          8. 7.2.2.2.8—Other No access
        3. 7.2.2.3—Existentialism: Sartre's Thought No access
    1. 8.1—Synopsis of the Mind's Triadic Structure and Bi-directional Activity No access
      1. 8.2.1—Synopsis of the Activity of Intellect (see Fig. 8.2) No access
      2. 8.2.2—Synopsis of the Activity of Sensitiveness (see Fig. 8.3) No access
      3. 8.2.3—Synopsis of the Activity of Power (see Fig. 8.4) No access
    3. 8.3—A Conclusive Note No access
  10. References No access 519 - 557
  11. Index No access 558 - 593

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