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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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| Reflection Questions | |
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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 | |