Table of Contents:  





  Preface 

 



  1. An Overview   

  Problems. The number of positions. The popularity of the six positions. 

  The one criterion.  Restrictions. Names and labels. 

  



  2. Reductionistic Materialism  

  The Position.  Man and nature. The three steps.  

  Background.  Method and nature. The two levels. The main point. A secondary point.  

  Some Consequences.  The atoms blindly run.  Predictability. Consistency.

  Human worth. Behavior modification. Individual unity.

   



  3. Nonreductionistic Materialism  

  The Position Trouble in paradise. The philosophers. The biologists. Matter. Unity.

  Some variations.  Background.  Evolution. Hegel and Parmenides. The 

  quantity-quality leap. Hegel and Marxism.  Some Consequences Causes and effects.

  Perpetual motion. Species and subspecies. Behavior modification. 

  



  4. Psychosomaticism Without Immortality

  The Position.  The transition.  Quality-vs, quantity. The

  hierarchy of beings. Matter and form. Background The happy medium. The physics.

  The metaphysics. Some Consequences The effect cannot exceed the cause. No true

  novelty in species. No personal immortality. Behavior modification. 

  



  5. Psychosomaticism With Immortality The Position Aristotle and Aquinas. A new

  heaven and  earth. He Who Is. Fides quaerens intellectum. Personal immortality.

  The happy medium. Background: The need for revelation. Theology and philosophy.

  Essence and existence. Some Consequences Racial unity. Evolution and pollution.

  Behavior modification.  

 



  6. Vitalism The Position Plato the bad. Plato the good. The person is the soul.

  The nature of the soul. Soul, matter, -and evil. Of the necessary and the

  universal. Science. Universal ideas. Know thyself. Some variations.   



  Background The undeniable data. Father Parmenides. The happy medium. Some

  Consequences: Reincarnation. No evolution. Behavior modification. 

  



  7. Reductionistic Immaterialism The Position The law and morals. Matter.

  The principles of human knowledge. Abstract ideas. To exist is to be, or to be

  capable of being, perceived. Matter an unnecessary hypothesis. The person.

  Background Spirit vs. matter. Some Consequences: God  must exist. Immortality.

  The end of skepticism, atheism, and irreligion. Behavior modification.



  8. Conclusions All roads lead to Elea. The many faces of science. Changing times.

  The elusive  middle way.  



  Notes  

  Bibliography  

  Index to Proper Names  

  Index to Subjects