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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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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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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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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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The Limits of Philosophy
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The following review examines the limits of philosophy through a multidisciplinary lens, drawing on the provided sources to demonstrate that philosophy’s primary boundary lies at the intersection of abstract theory and lived historical experience. The sources collectively suggest that philosophy fails when it attempts to provide a universal, Archimedean point…
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The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy
Dr Neville Buch The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy: Against the Natural/Artificial and Foreign/Native Binaries (Synthetic Goal/Procedure) https://www.academia.edu/145473077/The_Thesis_of_the_Principle_Basic_Fallacy The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy Abstract The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy asserts that the intellectual separation of ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ elements in constructing systems of meaning is…