Preface: A Philosophy of Goodness Philosophical Background and Context The Plot Acknowledgments Part I. Goodness in Harmony and Form 1. Goodness in Experience Ubiquity, Evolution, and Aesthetic Perception Harmonies Defined, and Ecosystems Situations, Perspectives, and Sunsets Goodness Experienced 2. A Metaphysics of Form as Goodness Density of Being and Existential Fields Quantity, Complexity, Simplicity, and Elegance Narrowness, Width, Vagueness, and Triviality Focus, Field, Intensity, and Immediacy 3. A Cosmology of Form as Goodness Possibilities, Determinism, Indeterminism, and Temporality Actuality, Becoming, Conditions, and Loci of Goodness Goodness-Identity 4. Testing the Theory The Question of the Meaning of Goodness Imaginative Analytic of Goodness Immediacy and Mediacy in Framing Intensity Goodness, Engagement, Relations, and Experience Part II. Goodness in Beauty and Art 5. Beauty in Form Beauty as What Is Good in Itself Beauty as Ubiquitous and Ultimate Beauty as Simplification Beauty as Experienced 6.
Beauty in Art Art as an Elementary Human Process Art in Motivation and Creativity Art as a Basic Response to Existence Art and Religion 7. To Appreciate Arts Beauty for Appreciation Beauty in Form Beauty in Actualizing Form Beauty in Repose 8. To Create Arts To Seek Beauty To Seek Beauty in Form To Seek Beauty in Actualizing Form Beauty in Achieving Beauty: The Artistic Life Part III. Goodness in Obligation and Personhood 9. Goodness in Being True Goodness as Conformity The Goodness of Truth Being True The Obligation to Inquiry 10. Goodness in Being Moral Morality as a Two-Term Relation Obligation with Freedom Obligation without Freedom Achievement of Responsible Identity 11. Goodness in Being Right Engagement Appropriate Engagement with the Contours of the World Engagement as Self-Constitution Engagement as Finite Limitation 12. Goodness in Being Virtuous Conformation to the Ultimate Content of Life The Harmony of Virtue Virtue-Identity Virtue and the World''s Goodness Part IV.
Goodness in Flourishing and Civilization 13. Goodness in Human Flourishing Goodness in Contexts Civilization Flourishing The Global Context of High Civilizations 14. Goodness in Rituals and Institutions A General Theory of Ritual Rituals in Human Flourishing Institutions in High Civilization Rituals in Global Society and Civilization 15. Goodness in Creativity and Spirit Initiative Making a Life Pursuit of Beauty The Spirit of Creativity 16. The Goodness in Civilization Culture and Civilization Spirit of Civilization: Character Energy Creativity Notes Bibliography Index.