core questions
Our Project asks 26 core questions as arranged in four phases (I, O, A, and L) with their 21 nodes. (Letters are assigned to each question mainly for ease of reference. For an account of how the letters are assigned, see alphabet and the pages under tab 4.) Each question (accessible via the menu on the left) is addressed in five ways (top tabs). Site pages are laid out like a grid, combining the letters on the left with the numbers along the top.
After reviewing the core questions listed below, please begin by clicking 0-4 along the top of this page to read brief accounts of the five ways our questions are addressed. Also, find important links in the drop-down menu by hovering your cursor over 'Project IOAL' in the upper right-hand corner of any page.
- H - meaning/mystery - What is the meaning of existence?
- I - reality - What is the nature of reality?
- J - self - What am I?
- W - dynamic - What is the nature of my relationship with the world?
- K - world - What is the nature of the world?
- O - intelligibility - What is the nature of intelligibility (truth and how it is known)?
- M - subjectivity - How is truth subjectively known?
- N - activity - How is truth actively known?
- P - objectivity - How is truth objectively known?
- A - value - What does it mean to live a good life, and how does one live such a life?
- T - the good - What is good (in itself)?
- S - authenticity - What is good for me? What ought I do? How ought I live?
- Y - morality - What is good for us? What ought we do? How ought we live?
- Q - will do - What will be done? What am I/ are we making commitments to doing?
- U - happening - What is happening? What am I/ are we doing/ allowing to happen?
- Z - can do - What can be done? What am I/ are we capable of doing?
- R - character - What do I value? What is the quality of my character?
- X - culture - What do we value? What is the character of our culture?
- V - nature - What is valued (in itself)? What is valued by nature?
- L - conditions - How is experience concretely conditioned?
- F - transcendence - How does transcendence condition experience?
- B - liberty - How does liberty condition experience?
- E - recognition - How does recognition condition experience?
- C - community - How does community condition experience?
- G - security - How does security condition experience?
- D - materiality - How does materiality condition experience?
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