Contents

Acknowledgments    xiii

Preface   xv

Introduction: The Metaphysics of Reason and the Metaphysics of Feeling    1

1.         The Metaphysics of Rational Meaning  1

2.         The Metaphysics of Rational Meaninglessness    6

3.         Critique of the Rationalist Theory That Feeling Cannot Be a Source of Metaphysical Knowledge  14

4.         The Metaphysics of Felt Meaning     19

5.         The Appreciative Method of Metaphysical Knowing  24

Part One: Feelings and the World as Felt   31

Chapter I: Feeling-Sensations and the World as Sensuously Felt     35

6.         The External Characterization of Feeling-Sensations as Consequences of Reasons  36

7.         The Internal Characterization of Feeling Sensations as Qualitative-Flows 41

8.         Feeling-Tonalities of the World  48

9.         The Nontypological Internal Characteristics of Sensuous Feeling 53

10.       The Depth and Breadth of the World-Emanation of Feeling-Tonalities 57

i. Narrow and Shallow World-Emanations 58

ii. Broad and Shallow World-Emanations 59

iii. Narrow and Deep World’Emanations 59

iv. Broad and Deep World-Emanations 60

Chapter II: Feeling-Awarenesses and the World as Important  64

11.       The Feeling-Awarenesses of Importances, and Their Distinction from the “Feeling of Values” 64

12.       The Language of Importances  72

13.            Perceiving and Thinking as Feeling-Awarenesses, and Perceived and Thought-About Things as Importances  78

i. Perceiving as a Feeling-Awareness, and Perceived Things as Importances     78

ii Thinking as a Feeling Awareness and Thought-About Things as Importances     86

14        The Origin of the Importance/Neutral Dichotomy in the Degeneration of Feeling to Reasoning  93

Chapter III: Global Feeling-Awarenesses and Global Importances   109

Division   A. Global Moods and Global Importances as They Are Moodily Appreciated   109

15.       Preliminary Characterization of Moods and Their Difference from Affects   109    

16        The Constant Global Characters of Moods  112

i  The Moody Awareness of the Deep and Broad World-Emanation of the Moody Tonalities  113

ii The Intuitive Character of the Moody Awareness of the Important World Whole   114

ii The Unfocused Character of the Moody Awareness of the Important World-Whole    115

iv. The Extralogical Character of the Moody Awareness of the Important World Whole    116

17.    The Exceptional Global Characters of Moods  117

i. Realizing the Potential for Contemplating a Feeling-Tonality of the World-Whole    118

ii. Realizing the Potential for Contemplating an Importance of the World-Whole   119

iii. Global Contemplation Distinguished from Moody Mulling  121

18.     The Metaphysical Problem Posed by the Moody Awarenesses  122

Division    B. Global Affects and Global Importances as They Are Affectively Appreciated    124

19.       Preliminary Descriptions: Similarities and Differences between Global Affects and Moods    124

20.    The Difference between Global Affects and Moods That Enables the Global Affects to Resolve the Metaphysical Problem Posed by Moods

128

i. Affective Intuitions Are More Focused than Moody Intuitions  128

ii. The Veridicality of Global Affective Intuitions     131

21.       Global Affects Distinguished from Mystical Affects, Existential Affects, Essential Affects, and Nature Affects  134

i. Mystical Affects Distinguished from Global Affects  134

ii. Existential Affects Distinguished from Global Affects    142

iii. Essential Affects Distinguished from Global Affects    144

iv. Nature Affects Distinguished from Global Affects  145

Part Two: The Basic Felt Meanings of the World   147

Chapter IV: The Fulfillment of the World    151

22.     Rejoicing in the World-Whole’s Fulfillment-of-Happening  151

23.     Intuitively Felt Time and the Rational-Metaphysical Theory of Time  155

24.     Fulfillment-of-Happening as the Meaning of Existing  160

25.     The Existential Sense of Being Distinguished from the Nonexistential Senses  163

26.     Happening Is a Transcendental and Is Not a Real Predicate    168

27.     The Impure Appreciations of the World-Whole’s Happening    176

i. Introductory Remarks on the Pure and Impure Appreciations of the World-Whole’s Happening            176

ii. Marvelling at the World-Whole’s Miraculousness  181

iii. Despair at the World-Whole’s Emptiness  184

iv. Awe at the World-Whole’s Immensity    188

v. Tedium at the World-Whole’s Monotonousness  190

vi. Peace in the World-Whole’s Harmoniousness  191

Chapter V: The Closeness of the World    194

28.       The Loving Response to the World-Whole’s Revelation   194

29.       The Immediate Appearance of the Centered World-Whole   200

30.       The Mediate Appearance of the Centered World-Whole   210

31.       The Relation of Immediate and Mediate Global Appearances to Universals    212

i. Immediate and Mediate Appearances of Instantiated Universals  214

ii. Immediate and Mediate Appearances of Individuals  216

32.       The Ultimate Truth 229

33.       The Impure Appreciations of the Ultimate Truth  234

i. Pride in the World-Whole’s Glorification of Myself  235                     

ii. Sadness at the Imminent Loss of the World- Whole’s Apparential Closeness to Me  237

iii. Wonder at the Mystery of the World-Whole  237

iv. Desolation in Face of the Uncaring World- Whole  240

v. Equanimity in the Equilibrium of the World- Whole  243

Chapter VI: The Supremacy of the World     246

34.       Revering the Supreme World-Whole  246

35.       The Fulfillment of the Maximally Great and Superordinate Whole  250

36.       The Maximal Greatness of the Superordinate and Fulfilled Whole  255

37.       The Dependency of Myself upon the Independent, Maximally Great and Fulfilled Whole  258

38.       The Independency of the Maximally Great and Fulfilled Whole  267

i. The World-Whole Can Be Apparent to Me as Not Being Apparent to Me  268

ii. The World-Whole Can Appear Uncentered to a Center  269

iii. The Happening of the Nonapparent World- Whole Can Appear to Me  271

iv. The Composition of the Nonapparent World- Whole Can Appear to Me  281

v. The Importance of the Unappreciated World- Whole. Can Be Appreciated by Me  292

39.    The Impure Appreciations of the World-Whole’s Supremacy  296

i. The Place of the Impure Appreciations of Supremacy in the Foundational Order of Global Affects  296

ii. Stupefaction Before the Stunning World- Whole  296

iii. Humility Before the World-Whole’s Loftiness  301

iv. Apathy Before the Stultifying World-Whole  303

v. Dread of the World-Whole’s Ominousness  306

vi.  Quietude in the Stillness of the World-Whole  307

Conclusion: Implications of a the Metaphysics of Feeling   310

40.    The Foundational Order of Global Importances    310

i. Global Importances and Levels of Global Importance Other than the Ones Explicated in Part Two  310

ii. The Relation between Global Importances and Their Pure Appreciations   312

iii. Foundational Orders Other than the One Explicated in Part Two   316

41.       The Importance of a Metaphysics of Feeling   318

Notes 325

index  351