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Category: Essay for Social Change
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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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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…
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The Architect of Experience: A Manual for Intelligent Living
Abstract Intelligent living is defined as the transformation of human existence from a series of passive, unreflective reactions into a deliberate act of “human authorship”. It requires the Original Synthesis of Experience, where an individual takes the disconnected data of their life—memories, sensory inputs, and cultural heritage—and weaves them into a coherent common world-picture. This…
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The Political Class of Brisbane and Queensland, and solutions
28 December 2025 Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Scholar, Principal Researcher, Team Leader, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA cc. Drs. Michael Macklin and Neil Peach, Directors, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Dear friends with a wide range of political views who nevertheless…
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The Future of the Western Belief System
https://www.academia.edu/145585195/The_Future_of_the_Western_Belief_System PDF File: The Future of the Western Belief System Dr Neville Buch ABN: 8670368664 Abstract The future of the Western belief system is currently being forged at the intersection of liberal Christian reform and a Post-Christian non-realist stance. This intellectual evolution marks a shift from a dogmatic, God-centred worldview toward a human-centered…
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Compatibility of Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts
Dr Neville Buch The Synoptic Vision: Harmonizing Science, Humanities, and the Arts https://www.academia.edu/145486590/Compatibility_of_Sciences_Humanities_and_the_Arts Abstract The compatibility of the Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts is often obscured by a historical and political “split” that pits technical calculation against human meaning. While Sciences often aspire to an “absolute conception of the world”—a representation that…
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Humanism: Understanding Virtues and Vices Together
Virtues and vices are often seen as opposing forces in moral philosophy. In Aristotle’s view, virtues are character traits that represent a balance or “mean” between two opposing vices. For example, courage is a virtue that exists between the vices of recklessness and cowardice. In contrast, vices are negative character traits that represent an excess…
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No Food to Eat. The Corrupt Thinking of Decision Makers
This is an image of my empty fridge today. Would a society be unhappy with the corrupt ways of thinking from managers in their decision making? Would Australian society be happy that many experts in different fields of learning are experiencing poverty, well below the poverty line as western countries’ averaged…
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Thinking on Attitudes Among those Who Think About Unity and Universality
“Attitudes: Socio-Historical Change in Unitarian Universalism,” Dr. Neville Buch” Today, I am looking at attitudes in Unitarian-Universalism, and they are not always good, but in critical thinking each person can renew, for themselves, better unitarian universalism thinking. Each of us has a free mind but we are not free in our thinking…