Unification Thought
- Preface
- Theory of the Original Image
- 1. The Divine Image
- A. The Attributes of Sungsang and Hyungsang
- B. Yang and Yin
- C. The Individual Image
- II. The Divine Character
- A. Heart
- B. Logos
- C. Creativity
- III. The Structure of the Original Image
- A. Give-and-Receive Action and the Four-Position Base
- B. Kinds of Four-Position Bases
- C. Origin-Division-Union Action
- D. Oneness in the Structure of the Original Image
- IV. Traditional Ontology and Unification Thought
- A. The View of God in Augustine and Thomas Aquinas
- B. Li-Chi Theory
- C. Regel's Absolute Spirit
- D. Schopenhauer's Blind Will
- E. Nietsche's Will to Power
- F. Marx's Materialism
- G. The Ontology of Unification Thought
- Ontology
- I. The Universal Image of the Individual Truth Body
- A. Sungsang and Hyungsang
- B. Yang and Yin
- II. Subject and Object
- A. The System of Individual Truth Bodies in the Created World
- B. Types of Subjects and Objects
- 1. Original type
- 2. Temporary type
- 3. Alternating type
- 4. Arbitrary type
- C. Give-and-Receive Action
- 1. Bi-Conscious Type
- 2. Uni-Conscious Type
- 3. Unconscious Type
- 4. Heteronomous Type
- 5. Contrast Type (Collation Type)
- D. Correlatives and Opposites
- III. The Individual Image of the Individual Truth Body
- A. Individuation of the Universal Image
- B. Specific Difference and the Individual Image
- C. The Individual Image and the Environment
- IV. The Connected Body
- A. The Connected Body and the Dual Purpose of Existing Being
- B. The Connected Body and the Original Image
- C Materialistic Dialectic and Interconnectedness
- V. The Mode of Existence
- A. Circular Motion
- B. Rotation and Revolution
- C. Form of Circular Motion
- 1. Basic Circular Motion
- 2. Transformed Circular Motion
- 3. Spiritual Circular Motion (Sungsang Circular Motion)
- D. A Critique of Materialistic Dialectic
- 1. On Development
- 2. The Communist Perspective on Motion
- VI. The Position of Existence
- VII. The Law of the Universe
- 1. Correlativity
- 2. Purposefulness and Centrality
- 3. Order and Position
- 4. Harmony
- 5. Individuality and Connectedness
- 6. Identity-Maintaining Nature and Developmental
- 7. Circular Motion
- Theory of the Original Human Nature
- 1. A Being With Divine Image
- A. A Being of United Sungsang and Hyungsang
- B. A Being of Harmonious Yang and Yin
- C. A Being With Individuality
- II. A Being with Divine Character
- A. A Being With Heart
- B. A Being with Logos
- C. A Being with Creativity
- III. A Being with Position
- A. The Object Position
- B. The Subject Position
- C. Connected-Body Consciousness and Democracy
- IV. Conclusion
- V. A Unification Thought Appraisal of the Existentialist Analysis of Human Existence
- A. Soren Kierkegaard
- 1. Kierkegaard's Analysis of Human Existence
- 2. A Unification Thought Appraisal of Kierkegaard's View of the Human Being
- B. Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1. Nietzsche's View of the Human
- 2. A Unification Thought Appraisal of Nietzsche's View of the Human Being
- C. Karl Jaspers
- 1. Jaspers' View of the Human Being
- 2. A Unification Thought Appraisal of Jaspers' View of the Human
- D. Martin Heidegger
- 1. Heidegger's View of the Human Being
- 2. A Unification Thought Appraisal of Heidegger's View of the Human Being
- E. Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1. Sartre's View of the Human Being
- 2. A Unification Thought Appraisal of Sartre's View of the Human Being
- IV. Axiology: A Theory of Value
- I. The Basis for Values and Various Kinds of Values
- A. What Are Values?
- B. The Duality of Desire, Purpose, and Value
- C. Kinds of Value
- II. Determination of Actual Value and the Unification of Views of Value
- A. The Essence of Value
- B. Determination of Actual Value in Correlative Relationship
- C. The Standard for Determining Value
- 1. The Correlative Standard
- 2. The Absolute Standard
- III. Weaknesses In Traditional Views of Values
- A. Weaknesses in the Christian View of Value
- B. Weaknesses in the Confucian View of Value
- 1. The Five Moral Rules Governing the Five Human Relationships
- 2. The Four Virtues
- 3. The Four Beginnings
- 4. The Eight Articles
- 5. Loyalty and Filial Piety
- C. Weaknesses in the Buddhist View of Value
- D. Weaknesses in the Islamic View of Value
- E. Weaknesses in the Humanitarian View of Value
- IV. Establishing a New View of Value
- A. Establishing the Absolute View of Value
- B. The Theological Ground for Absolute Value
- C. The Philosophical Ground for Absolute Value
- D. The Historical Ground for Absolute Value
- V. Historical Changes In the Systems of Value
- A. Views of Value in the Greek Period
- 1. The Materialistic View of Value
- 2. The Arbitrary (Sophistic) View of Value
- 3. The Pursuit of Absolute Value
- B. Views of Value in the Hellenistic-Roman Period
- 1. The Stoic School
- 2. The Epicurean School
- 3. The Skeptic School
- 4. Neoplatonism
- C. The Views of Value in the Medieval Period
- 1. Augustine
- 2. Thomas Aquinas
- D. Modern Views of Value
- E. The Necessity for a New View of Value
- Theory of Education
- I. The Divine Principle Foundation for a Theory of Education
- A. Resemblance to God and the Three Great Blessings
- 1. Perfection
- 2. Multiplication
- 3. Dominion
- B. The Process of Growth of Human Beings
- C. The Three Great Ideals of Education
- II. The Three Forms of Education
- A. Education of Heart
- 1. Education for the Perfection of the Individual
- 2. Forms of Expression of God's Heart
- 3. Understanding God's Heart
- 4. How to Introduce God's Heart
- 5. Education of Heart through Practice
- B. Education of Norm
- 1. Education for the Perfection of the Family
- 2. Education for Becoming a Being of Reason-Law
- C. Education of Dominion (Intellectual Education, Technical Education, Physical Education)
- 1. Education for the Perfection of the Nature of Dominion
- 2. The Development of Creativity and the Two-stage Structure
- 3. Education of Dominion Based on Universal Education
- III. The Image of the Ideal Educated Person
- A. A Person of Character
- B. A Good Citizen
- C. A Genius
- IV. Traditional Theories of Education
- 1. Plato's View of Education
- 2. The Christian View of Education
- 3. View of Education in the Renaissance
- 4. Comenius' View of Education
- 5. Rousseau's View of Education
- 6. Kant's View of Education
- 7. Pestalozzi's View of Education
- 8. Froebel's View of Education
- 9. Herbart's View of Education
- 10. Dewey's Theory of Education
- 11. The Communist View of Education
- 12. The Democratic View of Education
- V. An Appraisal of Traditional Theories of Education from the Standpoint of Unification Thought
- Ethics
- I. The Divine Principle Foundation for Ethics
- II. Ethics and Morality
- A. Definition of Ethics and Morality
- B. Ethics and Order
- C. Ethics, Morality, and the Way of Heaven
- D. Social Ethics as a Projection and Application of Family Ethics
- III. Order and Equality
- A. Order and Equality Until Today
- B. The Divine Principle Way of Order and Equality
- IV. Appraisal of Traditional Theories of Ethics from the Viewpoint of the Unification Theory of Ethics
- A. Kant
- 1. Kant's Theory of Ethics
- 2. A Unification Thought Appraisal of Kant's Theory of Ethics
- B. Bentham
- 1. Bentham's View of Ethics
- 2. A Unification Thought Appraisal of Bentham's View of Ethics
- C. Analytic Philosophy
- 1. Analytic Philosophy's Perspective on Ethics
- 2. A Unification Thought Appraisal of Analytic Philosophy's View of Ethics
- D. Pragmatism
- 1. The Pragmatistic Perspective on Ethics
- A Unification Thought Appraisal of the Pragmatistic Perspective on Ethics
- Theory of Art
- I. The Divine Principle Foundation for the New Theory of Art
- 1. God's Purpose of Creation and Creativity:
- 2. Joy And Creation
- 3. Give-And-Receive Action:
- II. Art and Beauty
- A. What is Art?
- B. What is Beauty?
- C. The Determination of Beauty
- D. The Elements of Beauty
- III. The Dual Purpose of Artistic Activity: Creation and Appreciation
- IV. Requisites for Creation
- A. Requisites for the Subject in Creation
- 1. Motif, Theme, Conception
- 2. Object Consciousness
- 3. Individuality
- B. Requisites for the Object in Creation
- C. Technique and Materials
- 1. Styles and Schools of Artistic Creation
- V. Requisites for Appreciation
- A. Requisites for the Subject in Appreciation
- B. Requisites for the Object in Appreciation
- C. Judgments of Beauty
- VI. Unity In Art
- A. The Unity of Creation and Appreciation
- B. The Unity of Content and Form
- C. The Unity of Universality and Individuality
- D. The Unity of Eternity and Temporality
- VII. Art and Ethics
- VIII. Types of Beauty
- A. Types of Love and Beauty from the Perspective of Unification Thought
- B. Traditional Types of Beauty
- IX. A Critique of Socialist Realism
- A. Socialist Realism
- B. Critique of Socialist Realism
- C. The Indictment of Communism by Writers
- D. Errors in the Communist Theory of Art from the Viewpoint of Unification Thought
- Theory of History
- I. The Basic Positions of the Unification View of History
- A. Sinful History
- B. History of Re-Creation
- C. History of Restoration
- D. The Law-Governed Nature of History
- E. The Origin, Direction, and Goal of History
- II. The Laws of Creation
- 1. The Law of Correlativity
- 2. The Law of Give-and-Receive Action
- 3. The Law of Repulsion
- 4. The Law of Dominion by the Center
- 5. The Law of Completion through Three Stages
- 6. The Law of the Period of the Number Six
- 7. The Law of Responsibility
- III. The Laws of Restoration
- 1. The Law of Indemnity
- 2. The Law of Separation
- 3. The Law of the Restoration of the Number Four
- 4. The Law of Conditioning Providence
- 5. The Law of the False Preceding the True
- 6. The Law of the Horizontal Reappearance of the Vertical
- 7. The Law of Synchronous Providence
- IV. Changes In History
- V. Traditional Views of History
- A. The Cyclical View of History (Fatalist View of History)
- B. The Providential View of History
- C. The Spiritual View of History (Progressive View of History)
- D. Historical Materialism
- E. The Philosophy-of-Life View of History
- F. The Cultural View of History
- G. Traditional Views of History Seen From The Unification View of History
- VI. A Comparative Analysis of Histories
- The Providential View of History, the Materialist Conception of History, and the Unification View of History
- 1. The Beginning of History
- 2. The Characteristics of History
- 3. The Driving Force for the Development of History
- 4. The Laws of Change in History
- 5. The Struggle to Take Place at the Consummation of History
- 7. Events at die Consummation of History
- 8. The History That Comes to an End
- 9. The Ideal World To Come
- Epistemology
- 1. Traditional Epistemologies
- A. The Origin of Cognition
- 1. Empiricism
- 2. Rationalism
- B. The Essence of the Object of Cognition
- 1. Realism
- 2. Subjective Idealism
- C. Epistemology in Terms of Method
- 1. Kant's Transcendental Method
- 2. Marxist Epistemology
- 3. Absolute Truth and Relative Truth
- II. Unification Epistemology (Part 1)
- Outline of Unification Epistemology Unification
- 1. The Origin of Cognition
- 2. The Object of Cognition
- 3. The Method of Cognition
- B. Content and Form in Cognition
- 1. The Content of the Object and the Content of the Subject
- 2. The Form of the Object and the Form of the Subject
- 3. Elements Making up a Prototype
- 4. The Preexistence of Prototypes and Their Development
- C. Protoconsciousness, Image of Protoconsciousness, and Category
- 1. Protoconsciousness
- 2. The Function of Protoconsciousness
- 3. Formation of the Image of Protoconsciousness
- 4. Formation of the Form of Thought
- 5. Form of Existence and Form of Thought
- D. The Method of Cognition
- 1. Give-and-Receive Action
- 2. Formation of the Four-Position Base
- E. The Process of Cognition
- 1. The Sensory Stage of Cognition
- 2. The Understanding Stage of Cognition
- 3. The Rational Stage of Cognition
- F. The Process of Cognition and the Physical Conditions
- 1. Parallelism between Psychological Process and Physiological Process
- 2. The Sources That Correspond to Protoconsciousness and Protoimage
- 3. Correspondence of the Psychological and Physiological Processes in the Three Stages of Cognition
- 4. Correspondence between Psychological Process and Physiological Process in the Transmission of Information
- 5. Corresponding Aspects in the Formation of Prototypes
- 6. Prototypes and Physiology
- 7. The Encoding of Ideas and the Ideation of Codes
- III. Kant's and Marx's Epistemologies from the Perspective of Unification Thought
- A. Critique of Kant's Epistemology
- 1. Critique of the Transcendent Method
- 2. Critique of Kantian Agnosticism
- B. Critique of Marxist Epistemology
- 1. Critique of the Theory of Reflection
- 2. Critique of Sensory Cognition, Rational Cognition, and Practice
- 3. Critique of the Communist Concepts of Absolute Truth and Relative Truth
- Logic
- I. Traditional Systems of Logic
- A. Formal Logic
- 1. The Laws of Thought
- 2. Concept
- 3. Judgment
- 4. Inference
- 5. Induction and Analogy
- B. Hegel's Logic
- 1. The Characteristic of Hegel's Logic
- 2. Outline of Hegel's Logic
- 3. The Dialectic of Being-Nothing-Becoming
- 4. Determinate Being
- 5. Being-Essence-Notion
- 6. Logic-Nature-Spirit
- C. Dialectical Logic (Marxist Logic)
- D. Symbolic Logic
- E. Transcendental Logic
- II. Unification Logic
- A. Basic Postulates
- 1. The Starting Point and Direction of Thinking
- 2. The Standard of Thinking
- 3. Related Areas
- B. The Logical Structure of the Original Image
- C. The Two Stages in the Process of Thinking and the Formation of the Four-Position Base
- 1. The Stage of Understanding and the Stage of Reason
- 2. The Development of Thinking in the Stage of Reason
- D. Basic Forms of Thought
- E. Basic Laws of Thought
- III. An Appraisal of Traditional Systems of Logic from the Perspective of Unification Thought
- A. Formal Logic
- B. Hegel's Logic
- C. Dialectical Logic
- D. Symbolic Logic
- E. Transcendental Logic
- F. A Comparison between Unification Logic and Traditional System of Logic
- Methodology
- I. Historical Review
- A. Methodologies in the Ancient Period
- 1. Heraclitus' Dialectic -- A Dynamic Method
- 2. Zeno's Dialectic -- A Static Method
- 3. Socrates' Dialectic -- A Method of Dialogue
- 4. Plato's Dialectic -- A Method of Division
- 5. Aristotle's Deductive Method
- B. Methodologies in the Modern Period
- 1. Bacon's Inductive Method
- 2. Descartes's Methodic Doubt
- 3. Hume's Empiricism
- 4. Kant's Transcendental Method
- 5. Hegel's Idealistic Dialectic
- 6. Marx's Materialist Dialectic
- 7. Husserl's Phenomenological Method
- 8. Analytical Philosophy -- The Method of Linguistic Analysis
- II. Unification Methodology - The Give-and-Receive Method
- A. Kinds of Give-and-Receive Action
- 1. Identity-maintaining and Developmental Give-and-Receive Actions
- 2. Inner and Outer Give-and-receive Actions
- B. Scope of the Give-and-Receive Method
- C. Types of Give-and-Receive Actions
- D. Characteristics of the Give-and-Receive Method
- III. An Appraisal of Conventional Methodologies from the Perspective of Unification Thought
- A. Methodologies in the Ancient Period
- 1. Heraclitus
- 2. Zeno
- 3. Socrates
- 4. Plato
- 5. Aristotle
- B. Methodologies in the Modern Period
- 1. Bacon
- 2. Descartes
- 3. Hume
- 4. Kant
- 5. Hegel
- 6. Marx
- 7. Husserl
- 8. Analytical Philosophy
- Notes