Ultimate Reality in Daesoon Thought as Viewed from Perennial Philosophy

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

The Philosophy of Perspective: Math as Reality

From Law and Chance in nature to Ultimate reality

this chapter argues that there is some traction between an ontology of nature1 based on the reality of law and chance in nature, on the one hand, and a metaphysics of ultimacy,2 on the other. Contrary to the strategy of traditional natural theology, which aims at direct entailment from aspects of an ontology of nature to theories of ultimacy, the traction i speak of has only the limited effect ...

Satanic Indifference and Ultimate Reality

Satan has captured the imagination of writers in the English language for centuries. This figure and the notion of evil have gone through many changes in English literature of the 19 and 20 centuries. Something changed Satan during this time, and made him into an arbiter of truth rather than a figure of rebellion. In The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain used him as the grand narrator of the univ...

The Reality of Aging Viewed from the Arterial Wall

An exclusive interview conducted by Professors Jeong Bae Park and Sungha Park with Dr. Edward Lakatta in Seoul while he was visiting for the Pulse of Asia 2013 in Seoul. In this interview, Dr. Lakatta explains and describes vascular aging and aging.