Analytic Philosophy and Metaphysics

This book is a comprehensive metaphysical and epistemological treatise in the service of morality, spirituality and Truth, which constitute the core subject of my 1st book entitled Ethics: Man, Morality, Spirituality, Religion and liberation. Although this work mainly discusses systemically in an integrated way various fundamental issues of analytic philosophy with epistemology as its core, a critical logical appraisal of various important metaphysical views on various fundamental...
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This book is a comprehensive metaphysical and epistemological treatise in the service of morality, spirituality and Truth, which constitute the core subject of my 1st book entitled Ethics: Man, Morality, Spirituality, Religion and liberation. Although this work mainly discusses systemically in an integrated way various fundamental issues of analytic philosophy with epistemology as its core, a critical logical appraisal of various important metaphysical views on various fundamental metaphysical problems, especially of those which are ethically relevant, has been made in the course of the discussions. Accepting some form of empiricism which considers selfless ethical life of love to constitute the essence of spiritual as well as of religious life, and considering the problem of ultimate meaning of life to be the central problem of ethics, it argues that to realize God, self, liberation, or Truth, i.e. the true ultimate meaning of life, is of factual necessity the same as to realize ethical perfection with reference to spirituality, i.e. selfless ethical love; and whether one is a theist, atheist or agnostic and believes in the existence of soul or not, and even if God, soul, life before and after death do not exist, in any age in any society it is factually possible for any person to transform one's life by rational effort through exercising one's rational free will from evil to selfish ethical life, from selfish ethical life to enlightened spiritual life, i.e. enlightened selfless ethical life of love, and from it finally to liberated life, i.e. life of spiritual perfection, which is of factual necessity intrinsically full of peace and happiness and eternally the best form of life. Philosophers as character-building ethics teachers and cultural critics, enlighteners and purifiers from the view point of ethics, must sincerely try to play their unique important role to build an ethically enlightened / rational / critical secular kingdom righteousness / goodness (kingdom of God, Rama Rajya) on mother Earth, where justice, liberty and love flourish within an enlightened / scientific / rational / critical culture of spirituality, i.e. of selfless ethical love, and where all religions exist harmoniously and grow ethically irrespective of their differences in the realm of speculative metaphysics. Deeply agreeing with the Gandhian view that modern western civilization is essentially an irreligious false civilization, this research work is a deep sincere effort of a Gandhian empiricist analytic philosopher with full of goodwill to provide some deep theoretical support to philosophers to play their legitimate central role in the task of the creation and sustenance of an enlightened global culture of morality, spirituality and Truth in the context of our present spiritually dark age of science and technology.