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Active Nihilism and the Architecture of Human Legacy
Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: On active nihilism. “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever,” (Isaiah 40:8) but as Bernard Williams points out the idea of a “Universal Word” has to be replaced by a deed, whether made profound or mundane, in our post-Christian state…
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Hate Speech and Hate Expression
Hate Speech and Hate Expression Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay argues that effectively addressing hate speech and the expression of hatred requires a transition from technocratic solutions, such as bans and censorship, toward a sophisticated understanding of the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). Drawing on the synthesis of C.G. Jung’s archetypes and John…
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Dewey and Jung on Social Psychology
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay explores the synthesis of C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology and John Dewey’s pragmatist social psychology within the framework of Dr. Neville Buch’s Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). It argues that Jung’s concept of archetypes—the “inherited possibilities of ideas”—provides the necessary primordial content for the “Prejudice” layer of the DoC, while Dewey’s…
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Perennial Thinking
Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract This essay explores the contemporary intellectual crisis characterized by an “immense regression” into historical forgetfulness and unreflective conventionalism. It argues that even high-level scholarship frequently falls into the trap of “uninformed conventional thinking” by misinterpreting the nature of Perennial Thinking. By examining Karl Jaspers’ seminal…
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MICE and SOFiA. Analysis of Big Belief and Big Doubt
MICE. Analysis of Big Belief and Big Doubt https://www.academia.edu/145798686/MICE_Analysis_of_Big_Belief_and_Big_Doubt Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract The Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) serves as a philosophical and structural intervention designed to correct systemic cognitive failures in modern governance and education. Rooted in the axiom that “understanding history is philosophy in practice,”…
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Professional History and Levels of Thinking
https://www.academia.edu/145773668/Professional_History_and_Levels_of_Thinking Professional History and Levels of Thinking Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract This essay argues that professional historians must transcend the mere interpretation of primary records to engage with the deeper historiography of their subjects, a practice defined as “understanding history as philosophy in practice”. While records…
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Ideas and History
PDF File of Evidence: Ideas and History Dr Neville Buch Abstract The current climate of political resistance against independent scholarship at local, regional, and national levels is not a coordinated conspiracy but a systemic manifestation of wilful ignorance and technocratic reductionism. This resistance is rooted in a “techné” mindset that privileges measurable, immediate…
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One Syllabi
ONE MICE SYLLABI: THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF QUEENSLAND EDUCATION Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: This proposal (preliminary in the first development of the idea) argues that the Management Institute for Contributory Economy (MICE) philosophy provides the essential theoretical and practical framework to establish “One Syllabi” for Queensland’s educational…
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The Architecture of Hope: From Sentiment to Action
Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the cognitive and existential distinctions between the active construction of hope and the limiting frameworks of fate, indecision, and clinical depression, as understood through the lens of Lebensphilosophie (Philosophy of Life) and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) methodology. Hope is identified not as a passive sentiment but…
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Local and Global Social Harm
https://www.academia.edu/145681862/Local_and_Global_Social_Harm PDF File: Local and Global Social Harm Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: Local and Global Social Harm is examined in this essay as a dual manifestation of the “immense regression” and the “Principle Basic Fallacy.” At the global scale, social harm is driven by the technicisation of cognition and the expansion…