Principles of an Epistemology of Values: The permutation of collective cohesion and motivation (Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 14)

This book addresses the need to create an ℓ́ℓaxiological epistemologyℓ́ℓ. This term refers to knowledge of what is axiological, i.e. everything related to human values, and the know-how on how to manage the study of values. In knowledge societies, we know and live axiological projects that we do not receive from anyone, but that we must construct ourselves in a situation of continuous change. In view of the fact that the axiological crisis in which we are immersed is the most serious one that humanity has suffered over its long history, the seriousness and urgency of the issue in question is evident. Adequate knowledge is required to solve this problem, which is at the root of all the problems we are experiencing. This work offers a potential solution that, in contrast to the past, cannot be definitive, but must be transformed throughout the continuous changes to ways of life as a result of technoscience. It will prove of great value to all those who must operate within human values and motivate groups, as well as to those interested in spirituality Preface 6 Reference 10 Contents 12 Chapter 1: General Principles 15 Towards a New Anthropology 15 A Specifically Human Quality: Non-nature Nature Stemming from the Dual Access to Reality 18 Our Anthropological Core 19 Silence Is the Basic Resource of Our Species 23 All Human Quality Has Always Gone Hand-in-Hand with an Interest in the Real, the Ability to Become Silent and to Distance Oneself from Specific Models 25 The Collective Urgency of Cultivating Secular Silence 27 Dual Access to the Real and Dual Use of Our Faculties 28 Reflections for Adequate Study of the Human Axiological Phenomenon 30 Process and Method of Research into Axiological Epistemology 32 The Specific, the Sensory, the Qualitative and the Axiological 35 The Structure of Language Is that of Anthropology, Axiological Systems and Communication 35 The Structure of Language 42 In Our Anthropological Structure, as in Linguistics, Everything Is Interdependent 44 Axiological Systems in the New Societies 46 The Boundary Between the Intralinguistic and the Extralinguistic 47 Text, Linguistic and Extralinguistic Context 48 Structural Relationships Between Text, Context and Situation 49 The Meaning of Life for a Being with Needs, Transposition to Language and Objective Distance 50 Analysis of the Components of Language and Construction of Axiological Systems 51 Creating Projects Based on Axiological Postulates 54 Does a Natural World Exist? 56 Abstraction and Its Various Types 59 Scientific Abstraction 59 Axiological Abstraction 62 References 64 Chapter 2: Principles of Specific Formal Parameters 65 In Natural Language Everything Is Specific and Qualitative; Nothing Is Abstract 65 The Resulting Axiological Consequences on Scientific/Technical Societies 68 The Elasticity of Linguistic and Expressive Formations 71 Oppositions, System and Process 72 The Elementary Structure of Specific Formal Parameters 73 Rules Governing the Transformation of the Elementary Structure 76 Achievements so far Towards the Construction of Axiological Systems 78 Discourse 78 A Few General Reflections 78 Actants 79 Actantial Structure of Christianity 82 Actantial Structure of the Enlightenment (Liberalism) 83 Actantial Structure of Classic Socialism 83 Actants in the New Societies: The Prestige and the Attractive Force of Axiological Systems in the New Knowledge Societies 85 Chapter 3: The Interdependence Between Natural Language and Collective Axiological Systems 86 The Role of Axiological Epistemology in the Cultivation of the Absolute Dimension of the Real 86 The Diverse Uses of Language and Practical Assumptions in the Use of Language 88 The Axiological Role of Language: An Overview of the Basic Principles of Axiological Epistemology 89 Methodological Observations: A Compendium 91 Chapter 4: Mythical Analyses 96 The Mesopotamian Myth ‘Enuma Elish’ 97 Inanna’s Descent to the Nether World 123 Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed 136 References 146 Chapter 5: The Creation of Collective Axiological Projects in the New Societies 147 The Tasks of Axiological Epistemology 147 Features of the Survival System of Societies Based on Innovation 150 The Creation of Axiological Projects 152 Axiological Projects: General Considerations 156 A General Project for Knowledge Societies 161 An Axiological Project for a Research Team 172 A General Outline for the Construction of Collective Projects in Knowledge Societies 176 The Cultivation of Profound Human Quality (What Our Ancestors Called Spirituality) in Globalised Knowledge Societies 177 General Forms of Cultivating Profound Human Quality 185 Chapter 6: The Cultivation of Profound Human Quality in the New Industrial Societies 192 Preliminary Considerations 192 Our Starting Point 197 The Focus of Our Study 198 Revelation and the Transition from Ego-Focused to Non-Ego-Focused 204 Cultivation of the Non-relative Dimension of Existence 205 Analysing the Texts of the Wise on Interest, Detachment and Silencing (IDS) and Inquiry, Communication and Service (ICS) 207 Interest 210 Inquiry 213 Detachment or Distancing 224 Silence 231 Communication 233 Service 237 References 241 Conclusion 242 Bibliography 246 This book addresses the need to create an ĺlaxiological epistemologyĺl. This term refers to knowledge of what is axiological, i.e. everything related to human values, and the know-how on how to manage the study of values. In knowledge societies, we know and live axiological projects that we do not receive from anyone, but that we must construct ourselves in a situation of continuous change. In view of the fact that the axiological crisis in which we are immersed is the most serious one that humanity has suffered over its long history, the seriousness and urgency of the issue in question is evident. Adequate knowledge is required to solve this problem, which is at the root of all the problems we are experiencing. This work offers a potential solution that, in contrast to the past, cannot be definitive, but must be transformed throughout the continuous changes to ways of life as a result of technoscience. It will prove of great value to all those who must operate within human values and motivate groups, as well as to those interested in spirituality This book addresses the need to create an zaxiological epistemologyy. This term refers to knowledge of what is axiological, i.e. everything related to human values, and the know-how on how to manage the study of values. In knowledge societies, we know and live axiological projects that we do not receive from anyone, but that we must construct ourselves in a situation of continuous change. In view of the fact that the axiological crisis in which we are immersed is the most serious one that humanity has suffered over its long history, the seriousness and urgency of the issue in question is evident. Adequate knowledge is required to solve this problem, which is at the root of all the problems we are experiencing. This work offers a potential solution that, in contrast to the past, cannot be definitive, but must be transformed throughout the continuous changes to ways of life as a result of technoscience. It will prove of great value to all those who must operate within human values and motivate groups, as well as to those interested in spirituality Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii General Principles (Marià Corbí)....Pages 1-50 Principles of Specific Formal Parameters (Marià Corbí)....Pages 51-71 The Interdependence Between Natural Language and Collective Axiological Systems (Marià Corbí)....Pages 73-82 Mythical Analyses (Marià Corbí)....Pages 83-133 The Creation of Collective Axiological Projects in the New Societies (Marià Corbí)....Pages 135-179 The Cultivation of Profound Human Quality in the New Industrial Societies (Marià Corbí)....Pages 181-230 Back Matter ....Pages 231-242