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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Progress: Nature as Good | |
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The Natural World | |
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Two Views on Nature: Classical and Historical | |
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Emergent Probability: A Dynamic World Order | |
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Determinism, Indeterminism, and Emergent Probability | |
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Classical and Statistical Law | |
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Schemes of Recurrence: Emergence and Survival | |
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A Dynamic, Interdependent Hierarchy: Transcendence, Sublation, and Vertical Finality | |
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Insight and the Self-Correcting Process of Learning | |
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Insight Itself | |
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Insight Made Practical: Common Sense and Science | |
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Common Sense, Sensitivity, and Spontaneous Intersubjectivity | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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Transcendental Method: The Larger Picture of Self-Transcendence | |
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Four Levels of Conscious Intentionality | |
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Experience | |
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Understanding | |
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Judgment: Fact and Value | |
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Decision, Liberty, and Moral Self-Transcendence | |
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Authenticity: Transcendental Precepts, Notions, and Desire | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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The Cooperating Human Community | |
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Love | |
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The Way from Above Downwards | |
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The World Mediated by Meaning and Belief | |
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The Human Good | |
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Realms of Meaning | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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Decline: Nature as Fallen | |
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Sin and Evil | |
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Creation, the Fall, and Original Sin | |
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Personal Sin and Its Consequences | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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Bias | |
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Dramatic Bias: Lack of Integrity | |
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Individual Bias: Egoism | |
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Group Bias: Egoism of the Group | |
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General Bias: Shortsightedness | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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Decline | |
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The Shorter Cycle | |
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The Longer Cycle | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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Redemption: Nature Raised into Supernature | |
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Grace | |
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The Supernatural-Relatively and Absolutely | |
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Healing and Elevating Grace | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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Religious, Moral, and Intellectual Conversion | |
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Religious Conversion | |
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Charity | |
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Faith | |
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Hope | |
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Moral Conversion | |
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Intellectual Conversion | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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A Redemptive Community | |
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Cosmopolis | |
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The Body of Christ | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reflection Questions | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |