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      Unification Thought

      1. Chapter 1 · Theory of the Original Image
        1. I. Content of the Original Image
          1. 1. Divine Image
          2. 2. Divine Character
        2. II. Structure of the Original Image
          1. 1. Relative Relationship between Sungsang and Hyungsang
          2. 2. Give and Receive Action and Four Position Foundation
          3. 3. Origin, Division, and Union Action
          4. 4. Unity in the Structure of the Original Image
          5. 5. Ideal of Creation
        3. III. Traditional Ontologies and Unification Thought
        4. Note
          1. An example of the reciprocal relationship
          2. Heisenberg’s idea of “prime-matter”
          3. Explanation of the concepts “homogeneous elements” and “absolute attributes”
          4. Materialism, idealism and the “Theory of Oneness” from the point of view of monism
          5. David Bohm’s exploration of the realm of consciousness and the Theory of Oneness
          6. Appliance Geulincx’s occasionalism idea to epistemological questions
          7. What does the actualization of love mean to people?
          8. Two views on who owns the Universal Prime Force
          9. The concept of “inner dual characteristics”
          10. Freedom and necessity on the example of driving a car
          11. Cleve Baxter’s plant experiment
          12. J. Charon’s theory of complex relativity
          13. Reconciling homogeneity and reciprocity: understanding Sungsang and Hyungsang in Divine Creation
          14. Union and multiplication: the dynamics of sungsang and hyungsang in divine interaction
          15. Purpose and heart: centers of union and multiplication in the dynamics of sungsang and hyungsang
          16. Development as multiplication: a Divine Principle perspective on creation and growth
          17. Instinctive vs. rational creativity: comparing humans and animals
          18. Freedom: freedom of mind, freedom of emotions, or freedom of will?
          19. Complex and simple ideas as spiritual molds in Divine Creation
          20. Solving logical deadlocks: the role of the inner developmental four position foundation in the original sungsang
          21. Understanding the Pan-Divine-Image theory: clarifying Unification thought in contrast to pantheism
          22. Exploring living idea-molds: understanding the concept of a living mold in divine creation
          23. Distinguishing the inner sungsang of logos: creation of humans vs. creation of all things
          24. Three stages of growth and the number three in divine principle
          25. Proof of the existence of God
      2. Chapter 2 · Ontology: A Theory of Being
        1. I. Individual Truth Being
          1. 1. Sungsang and Hyungsang
          2. 2. Yang and Yin
          3. 3. Individual Image of the Individual Truth Being
        2. II. Connected Being
          1. 1. What Is a Connected Being?
          2. 2. Subject and Object
          3. 3. Mode of Existence
          4. 4. Position of Existence
          5. 5. Law of the Universe
        3. Note
          1. Psychokinesis: the direct influence of will over matter
          2. The Backster Effect: exploring plant consciousness and human interaction
          3. Intelligence in nature: perspectives on living energy and consciousness in matter
          4. Sexual reproduction in single-cell organisms: discoveries in bacteria and paramecia
          5. Five types of time: understanding different temporal dimensions in Divine Principle
          6. David Bohm on the implicate order: the influence of a seed on its environment
      3. Chapter 3 · Theory of the Original Human Nature
        1. I. A Being with Divine Image
          1. 1. A United Being of Sungsang and Hyungsang
          2. 2. A Harmonious Being of Yang and Yin
          3. 3. A Being of Individuality
        2. II. A Being with Divine Character
          1. 1. A Being of Heart
          2. 2. A Being of Logos
          3. 3. A Being of Creativity
        3. III. A Being with Position
          1. 1. Object Position
          2. 2. Subject Position
          3. 3. “Connected Being Consciousness” and Democracy
        4. IV. Conclusion
        5. V. A Unification Thought Appraisal of the Existentialist Analysis of Human Existence
          1. 1. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)
          2. 2. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
          3. 3. Karl Jaspers (1883-1969)
          4. 4. Martin Heidegger (1899-1976)
          5. 5. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80)
        6. Note
          1. The family as the center of human love and education
          2. John Locke on natural rights: life, liberty, and the preservation of property
          3. Nietzsche on Christianity: Paul’s transformation of ‘evangel’ into ‘dysangel’
          4. Heidegger on ‘they’ (Das Man): the neuter ‘who’ in Being and Time
      4. Chapter 4 · Axiology: A Theory of Value
        1. I. Meaning of Axiology and Significance of Value
        2. II. Divine Principle Foundation for Axiology
        3. III. Kinds of Value
        4. IV. Essence of Value
        5. V. Determination of Actual Value and Standard of Value
          1. 1. Determination of Value
          2. 2. Subjective Action
          3. 3. Standard for Determining Value
        6. VI. Weaknesses in the Traditional Views of Value
          1. 1. Weaknesses in the Christian View of Value
          2. 2. Weaknesses in the Confucian View of Value
          3. 3. Weaknesses in the Buddhist View of Value
          4. 4. Weaknesses in the Islamic View of Value
          5. 5. Weaknesses in the Humanitarian View of Value
        7. VII. Establishing the New View of Value
          1. 1. Theological Ground for the New View of Absolute Value
          2. 2. Philosophical Ground for the New View of Absolute Value
          3. 3. Historical Ground for the New View of Absolute Value
        8. VIII. Historical Changes in the View of Value
          1. 1. Views of Value in the Greek Period
          2. 2. Views of Value in the Hellenistic-Roman Period
          3. 3. Views of Value in the Medieval Period
          4. 4. Modern Views of Value
          5. 5. Necessity for a New View of Value
        9. Note
          1. Understanding the Three Realms in Buddhism: desire, matter, and non-matter
          2. A good person can be called a person who exists for the good of others
          3. Addressing dehumanization through active participation and critique of capitalism
          4. Economic independence and the struggle against exploitation in the post-WWII less developed world
          5. From personal cultivation to governing the state in The Great Learning
          6. Tathagata in Buddhism
          7. Islamic virtues have much in common with Jewish and Christian virtues
          8. Of all the virtues of Islam, the most basic is mercy or mercy
          9. Pascal’s view of happiness and faith
      5. Chapter 5 · Theory of Education
        1. I. Divine Principle Foundation for the Unification Theory of Education
          1. 1. Resemblance to God and the Three Great Blessings
          2. 2. Process of Growth of Human Beings
          3. 3. Three Great Ideals of Education
        2. II. Three Forms of Education
          1. 1. The Education of Heart
          2. 2. The Education of Norm
          3. 3. The Education of Dominion
        3. III. Image of the Ideally-Educated Person
          1. A Person of Character
          2. A Good Citizen
          3. A Genius
        4. IV. Traditional Theories of Education
          1. Plato’s View of Education
          2. The Christian View of Education in the Middle Ages
          3. The View of Education During the Renaissance
          4. Comenius’ View of Education
          5. Rousseau’s View of Education
          6. Kant’s View of Education
          7. Pestalozzi’s View of Education
          8. Froebel’s View of Education
          9. Herbart’s View of Education
          10. Dewey’s View of Education
          11. Communist View of Education
          12. Democratic View of Education
        5. V. An Appraisal of Traditional Theories of Education from the Perspective of Unification Thought
        6. Note
          1. The main theme of Comenius’ theory of education
          2. Education of the mind and education of the heart from the point of view of Pestalozzi
          3. Consultative assistance in educational reform in Japan after defeat in World War II
      6. Chapter 6 · Ethics
        1. I. Divine Principle Foundation for Ethics
        2. II. Ethics and Morality
          1. Definition of Ethics and Morality
          2. Ethics and Order
          3. Ethics, Morality, and the Way of Heaven
          4. Social Ethics as an Extension of Family Ethics
        3. III. Order and Equality
          1. Order and Equality Until Today
          2. Divine Principle Way of Order and Equality
        4. IV. An Appraisal of Traditional Theories of Ethics from the Perspective of Unification Thought
          1. 1. Kant
          2. 2. Bentham
          3. 3. Analytic Philosophy
          4. 4. Pragmatism
        5. Note
          1. What is vertical love and horizontal love
          2. The difference between the concepts of “object” in the purpose of three objects and in subject-object relations
      7. Chapter 7 · Theory of Art
        1. I. Divine Principle Foundation for the Theory of Art
        2. II. Art and Beauty
          1. What is Art?
          2. Art and Joy
          3. What is Beauty?
          4. Determination of Beauty
          5. Elements of Beauty
        3. III. Dual Purposes of Artistic Activity: Creation and Appreciation
        4. IV. Requisites for Artistic Creation
          1. 1. Requisites for the Subject in Artistic Creation
          2. 2. Requisites for the Object in Artistic Creation
        5. V. Technique, Materials, and Style in Artistic Creation
        6. VI. Requisites for Artistic Appreciation
          1. Requisites for the Subject in Appreciation
          2. Requisites for the Object in Appreciation
          3. Judgment of Beauty
        7. VII. Unity in Art
        8. VIII. Art and Ethics
        9. IX. Types of Beauty
          1. 1. Types of Love and Beauty from the Perspective of Unification Thought
          2. 2. Traditional Types of Beauty
        10. X. A Critique and Counterproposal to Socialist Realism
          1. 1. Socialist Realism
          2. 2. Critiques of Socialist Realism
          3. 3. An Indictment of Communism by Notable Writers
          4. 4. Errors in the Communist Theory of Art Seen from the Perspective of Unification Thought
        11. Note
          1. God’s dual characteristics and the formation of the universe
          2. Complementarity in hyungsang and sungsang
          3. Beethoven’s dedication to art and humanity
          4. The four stages of creation in aesthetics and Unification Thought
          5. Millet’s mission in fine art according to Romain Rolland
          6. R. A. Medvedev on the oppression of soviet writers and artists
      8. Chapter 8 · Theory of History
        1. I. Basic Positions of the Unification View of History
        2. II. Laws of Creation
          1. 1. Law of Correlativity
          2. 2. Law of Give and Receive Action
          3. 3. Law of Repulsion
          4. 4. Law of Dominion by the Center
          5. 5. Law of Completion through Three Stages
          6. 6. Law of the Period of the Number Six
          7. 7. Law of Responsibility
        3. III. Laws of Restoration
          1. 1. Law of Indemnity
          2. 2. Law of Separation
          3. 3. Law of the Restoration of the Number Four
          4. 4. Law of Conditioning Providence
          5. 5. Law of the False Preceding the True
          6. 6. Law of the Horizontal Reappearance of the Vertical
          7. 7. Law of Synchronous Providence
        4. IV. Changes in History
        5. V. Traditional Views of History
          1. Cyclical View of History (Fatalist View of History)
          2. Providential View of History
          3. Spiritual View of History (Progressive View of History)
          4. Historical Materialism
          5. Philosophy-of-Life View of History
          6. Cultural View of History
          7. Traditional Views of History Seen from the Unification View of History
        6. VI. Comparative Analysis of Providential View, Materialist View, and Unification View
        7. Note
          1. The historical mystery of the axial period according to Karl Jaspers
          2. The early reformers and the Renaissance
          3. The 400-year turmoil before the Roman Empire
          4. Spengler’s principle of historical homology: contemporaneous parallels across cultures
          5. Thucydides’ Realistic and cyclical view of history
          6. Vico’s conception of history: A bridge between enlightenment thought and cultural historiography
          7. Simmel’s historical philosophy
      9. Chapter 9 · Epistemology
        1. I. Traditional Epistemologies
          1. 1. Origin of Cognition
          2. 2. Essence of the Object of Cognition
          3. 3. Epistemologies in Terms of Method
        2. II. Unification Epistemology
          1. 1. Outline of Unification Epistemology
          2. 2. Content and Form in Cognition
          3. 3. Protoconsciousness, Image in Protoconsciousness, and Category
          4. 4. Method of Cognition
          5. 5. Process of Cognition
          6. 6. Process of Cognition and Physiological Conditions
        3. III. Kantian and Marxist Epistemologies Seen from the Perspective of Unification Thought
          1. 1. A Critique of Kantian Epistemology
          2. 2. A Critique of Marxist Epistemology
        4. Note
          1. Kant’s critical philosophy: Synthesis of Rationalism and Empiricism
          2. Locke on the foundation of knowledge: Experience
          3. Kant’s critique of Wolff’s dogmatism
          4. Engels and Lenin on thought and consciousness
          5. Lenin on absolute and relative truth in human thought
          6. Key Points of Unification Epistemology Based on Divine Principle
          7. Wilder Penfield on the mind and the brain
          8. J.C. Eccles on dualist-interactionism
          9. Potential Advances in Cerebrophysiology and Unification Thought
          10. The two kinds of memory
          11. Hisashi Oshima on prototypes and knowledge structure
          12. Numbers and Laws: An inseparable relationship
      10. Chapter 10 · Logic
        1. I. Traditional Systems of Logic
          1. 1. Formal Logic
          2. 2. Hegel’s Logic
          3. 3. Dialectical Logic (Marxist Logic)
          4. 4. Symbolic Logic
          5. 5. Transcendental Logic
        2. II. Unification Logic
          1. 1. Basic Postulates
          2. 2. Logical Structure of the Original Image
          3. 3. The Two Stages in the Process of Thinking and the Formation of the Four Position Foundation
        3. III. An Appraisal of Traditional Systems of Logic from the Perspective of Unification Thought
        4. Note
          1. Hegel on God’s Eternal Essence in Logic
          2. Hegel on pure being and the beginning of logic
          3. The Absolute Idea: Abstract vs. Actual in Hegel’s philosophy
          4. Engels on the limitations of formal logic
          5. Stalin on language and superstructure
          6. Terasawa on the unfilled need for a materialist dialectical logic
          7. Kant on the hierarchy of human knowledge
          8. Hegel on the abstract nature of being and nothingness
          9. Akira Seto on the difficulties in the debate on logic
          10. The circular nature of Hegel’s Philosophy: Beginning and end as one
      11. Chapter 11 · Methodology
        1. I. Historical Review
          1. Heraclitus’ Dialectic―A Dynamic Method
          2. Zeno’s Dialectic―A Static Method
          3. Socrates’ Dialectic―A Method of Dialogue
          4. Plato’s Dialectic―A Method of Division
          5. Aristotle’s Deductive Method
          6. Bacon’s Inductive Method
          7. Descartes’ Methodic Doubt
          8. Hume’s Empiricism
          9. Kant’s Transcendental Method
          10. Hegel’s Idealistic Dialectic
          11. Marx’s Materialistic Dialectic
          12. Husserl’s Phenomenological Method
          13. Analytical Philosophy―Method of Linguistic Analysis
        2. II. Unification Methodology―Give and Receive Method
          1. 1. Kinds of Give and Receive Action
          2. 2. Scope of Give and Receive Action
          3. 3. Types of Give and Receive Action
          4. 4. Characteristics of Give and Receive Action
        3. III. An Appraisal of Conventional Methodologies from the Perspective of Unification Thought