IV. First Principles Philosophy

Chapter X | The First Dimension: Absolute Truth (God) By "God," we do not mean the anthropomorphic figure often misunderstood in religious tradition. Even within Christendom, God was never strictly defined as a "humanoid being." Personification is merely a narrative convenience, a linguistic bridge to facilitate relationship,

Part III: The Five Dimensions of Truth—A New Philosophical Atlas Our preceding inquiry has traced, from the inception of Plato to the fragmentation of Postmodernism, a singular and unmistakable trajectory: First, the Idea was distilled from experience and crowned as the sovereign truth of the world. Next, the Cognitive

9.4 The Universal Impasse: Perceiving the Tyranny, yet Halting within the Walls In reviewing Foucault, Derrida, and the Postmodernists, a distinct and consistent intellectual arc comes into view. They succeeded in unmasking a formidable truth: that Language is no neutral instrument of cognition, but is deeply complicit in the

9.3 Postmodernism: Fragmentation and the Abdication of Being In the wake of Derrida, Philosophy did not persist in its quest for the "Beyond"; instead, it chose a different path of retreat. If Derrida dismantled the fantasy that Language could ever render Meaning fully present, Postmodern thought proceeded

9.2 Derrida: Differance and the Infinite Deferral In Hegel’s Shorter Logic, the Idea attempted a feat of unprecedented audacity: to embark from the most abstract and impoverished of definitions and, through its own internal movement, to deduce the entire sequential unfolding of all concepts. Within this edifice, concepts

9.1 Foucault: The Sovereignty of Discourse and the Manufacture of Knowledge In the philosophical lineage we have traced, a singular and relentless trajectory has emerged: from Plato to Hegel, the essence of the world was sought in the Idea; the grasp of the Idea depended upon Reason; and the