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Folk Historiography
Folk Historiography Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract Folk historiography represents a persistent challenge to the integrity of public memory and the development of a mature democratic society. Defined as a reliance on superficial narratives that prioritize journalistic drama and patriotic myth over rigorous analytical inquiry, folk history often serves to sanitize…
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In and Out of Unity and Universality
In and Out of Unity and Universality… Abstract This essay explores the cognitive and historical movement of human thought as it oscillates between the pursuit of foundational unity and the recognition of historical contingency. By utilizing the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework, the analysis maps six pivotal intellectual shifts in Western history,…
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Spiral Dialectic Pattern
PDF File: Spiral Dialectic Pattern Introduction This paper considered the spiral historiography across: Augustine’ City of God; Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae; Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World History; Marx’s The German Ideology; H. Green’s Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation; S. Mill’s The Spirit of the Age; Max…
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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…