Local anthropogenies - Ontology page 1 of 72 From metaphysics to anthropogeny LOCAL ANTHROPOGENIES - ONTOLOGY FROM METAPHYSICS TO ANTHROPOGENY TABLE OF CONTENTS FIRST PART - METAPHYSICAL QUESTIONS ...................................................................... 4 Chapter 1 - The status of the Universe. (A) The technical questioning ............................................ 4 1A. The technician eye : two opposite looks .............................................................................................. 4 1B. A third look : synthetic apriori sentences ............................................................................................. 7 1C. The why? and the what? ..................................................................................................................... 9 Chapter 2 – The status of the Universe. (B) The semiotic questioning ........................................... 10 2A. Metaphysical dependence : from semiotics back to techniques. ........................................................... 11 2B. The metaphysical limits of language .................................................................................................. 12 2C. The metaphysical limits of Archimedian signs. .................................................................................. 13 2D. The predicamental way : realism and nominalism .............................................................................. 14 2E. The transcendental way. ................................................................................................................... 16 2E1. Ancient transcendentalism ...................................................................................................................... 16 2E2. The Transcendent as the essence of Christianity .................................................................................... 18 2E3. Kant's critical transcendentals ................................................................................................................ 19 2E4. The Emergence of the nowaday "transcentals in the making" ................................................................ 21 2F. The negative way : the capacity of semiotical negation ........................................................................ 21 Chapter 3 – The status of the Universe. (C) The consciousness questioning ..................................... 22 3A. The indescribableness of presence .................................................................................................... 22 3B. The Autarky of Presence-Absence, and Intercerebrality ...................................................................... 23 3C.The presence-apparitionality-translucency obtained by neutralizing nerve functionings. Its culmination in orgasm .................................................................................................................................................. 24 3D. The status of the Universe in the initial distinction : functioning / presence-absence .............................. 25 3E. 'Presence' as mystery ........................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 4 - Homo's place in the Universe. The living and the dead .................................................... 28 4A. Physical death ................................................................................................................................. 29 4A1. Before biochemistry ................................................................................................................................ 29 4A2. Since biochemistry .................................................................................................................................. 31 4B. Semiotic survivals ........................................................................................................................... 33 4C. The intrication of life and death. The rhythm and the rite .................................................................... 34 anthropogenie.com Henri Van Lier Local anthropogenies - Ontology page 2 of 72 From metaphysics to anthropogeny Chapter 5 – Homo's and the greed of ultimate justifications ................................................................ 35 5A. Divine moods .............................................................................................................................................. 35 5B. The THemis of the western logos ................................................................................................................ 36 5C. The Germanic 'Wille' ................................................................................................................................... 37 5D. A female saint of WORLD 3 ....................................................................................................................... 38 Chapter 6 - Western unconditional ontological freedom ....................................................................... 39 6A. The anthropogenic triggers of unconditional ontological freedom .............................................................. 39 6B. The two antinomies of western freedom ...................................................................................................... 40 6C. The questions of contemporary biology to the Western ontological freedom ............................................. 41 6C1. The indefinite multiplication of cybernetic freedoms .............................................................................. 41 6C2. The nimbus of decision............................................................................................................................ 42 6C3. Rational guilt .......................................................................................................................................... 43 6C4. The ontology of evil ................................................................................................................................. 44 6C5. A responsible "I", as a microcosm in a Cosmos, or a Universe locally-temporally specified in a metastable "I" .................................................................................................................................................. 45 6C6. Caracterology and factorial analysis ..................................................................................................... 46 6C7. The non-me of contemporary novel ........................................................................................................ 47 6C8. Individual or unending individuation ..................................................................................................... 49 6D. The avatars of the event (chance, occurence, happening) .................................................................... 49 SECOND PART: METAPHYSICAL BEHAVIOURS .................................................................... 52 Chapter 7 - The metaphysical process ........................................................................................................ 52 7A. Western indicialized indexes: Empedocles ................................................................................................. 52 7B. Oriental indicialized indexes: Lao-tsu ......................................................................................................... 53 7C. The prevalent gravitation of indicia and indices .......................................................................................... 54 Chapter 8 - The metaphysical discourse ..................................................................................................... 54 8A. The equivocity of metaphysical semantics .................................................................................................. 54 8A1. A short anthology of the case ................................................................................................................. 55 8A2. The impossible metaphysical translation : 'I will be as I will be' ............................................................ 56 8B. The slippery metaphysical syntax (Plato) .................................................................................................... 58 8C. Metaphysical intimidations and modesties (Descartes, and even Kant) ...................................................... 60 Chapter 9 - The relations between metaphysics and civilization.......................................................... 61 9A. The civilizational system ............................................................................................................................. 62 9B. Metaphysics, politics and technique ............................................................................................................ 63 9C. Metaphysics and morality ............................................................................................................................ 64 Chapter 10 - From metaphysics to the anthropogeny ............................................................................. 65 10A. The twilight of metaphysic ........................................................................................................................ 65 10B. The hinges of WORLD 2 to WORLD 3 .................................................................................................... 66 anthropogenie.com Henri Van Lier