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