The Foundations
Below you will find some brief notes on the basic principles of the philosophy that underpins this ontological approach. The key to this work has been a deep alignment around the foundational premise. All of the concepts found in other sections have their origins in one or more of these principles.
These articles do not offer a full explanation of these principles rather provide a basic understanding of what is involved.
The ideas outlined in this work are based on a fundamental premise:
Every human life is an entirely subjective, internal, and bounded experience. We define our life on a timeline of past, present...
Although all we know is our own inner experience of life, our concerns extend to others and the world at large. Our experiences and our ways of being are also shaped by our interactions with...
Our relationship with the future throws up two major apprehensions about life. The first relates to the one certainty of our life – our death; a certainty we all have to address at some stage...
For each of us, our Circle of Concern is generally quite extensive. There have been many attempts to provide a basis for those concerns and these have been used to help people understand what...
If we are to effectively explore the human condition, we need a means of distinguishing that condition in a way that allows for deeper understanding whilst retaining a sense of the whole.
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The arrow of time is defined by our calendars and clocks. We use this measured aspect of time in many ways, but primarily for the social coordination of action. Clock time tells us when things...
It is easy and somewhat intuitive to believe when we observe the objective reality, we actually observe it as it is. Yet, this is not the case. We experience and engage with the universe through...
We do not step into the future in a vacuum. Through our life, we develop certain important concerns that we take into the future with us. These concerns form the basis of our interpretations...