Ebook: The Transcendence of the Cave: Sequel to The Discipline of the Cave

Cover; The Transcendence of the Cave; Title Page; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; I. Foundations of the Realm of Reason and Spirit; II. The Realm of Notions and Meanings; III . The Realm of Values and Disvalues; IV. Religion and Its Objects; V. The Collapse of the Realm of Reason and Spirit; VI. Otherworldly Geography; VII. The Noetic Cosmos; VIII. The Life of the Soul; IX. The Life of God; X. Return to the Cave; INDEX.;First published in 1967, The Transcendence of the Cave is the second in a series of Gifford Lectures on philosophical issues, and continues the themes of the first series entitled The Discipline of the Cave. In the opening chapters, J N Findlay sketches an ontology, an axiology and a theology which are 'phenomenological' in the sense of Husserl, as they attempt to show that a 'firmament' of logical and other values emerges out of the contingencies of first order liking and interest. The synthesis of these values in an object having many paradoxical, mystical-religious properties is also a n.