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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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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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Political Thinking. Harms and Solutions
https://www.academia.edu/145880185/Political_Thinking_Harms_and_solutions Political Thinking. Harms and solutions Dr Neville Buch on behalf of MICE Abstract Political thinking in the 21st century is characterized by a structural crisis where communicative action is increasingly replaced by mechanistic calculation and sociological propaganda. The harms of this “immense regression” include the technicisation of language, the erosion of personal…
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The Open Question on High-Level Employment
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Fair employment is systematically subverted by the “credential currency” of modern technocracy, which prioritizes institutional conformity and mechanistic utility over genuine intellectual capacity. The question of who does not get fairly employed reveals two primary groups: the highly “overqualified” intellectual (the scholar) and the systematically marginalized (based on gender, ethnicity, or…
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Understanding Thinking in Three Questions
8 January 2026 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, I have a message that must be acknowledged.…
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Connecting Cognition Defeats (“hooray”) Reactionary Cognition (“boo”)
THE PROBLEM Dr Neville Buch Abstract This essay examines the focus on security as a predominantly reactionary cognitive position that signals a retreat from the “thick” complexities of social reality into a “techné mindset” of calculable certainty. Drawing on the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC) framework, the analysis posits that the fixation on…
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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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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…