F.E.D. Dialectics: A Review -- Volume 3 of the F.E.D. treatise ‘A Dialectical Theory of Everything’.

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

A Review -- Volume 3 of the F.E.D. treatise ‘A Dialectical Theory of Everything’.

A Brief Review --

of Volume 3 of the F.E.D. treatise ‘A Dialectical Theory of Everything’.

Dear Reader,

Volume 3, harnesses the ‘Unified Theory of Universal Dialectics’ first elaborated in volumes 0 and 1.

That theory unifies, to begin with, the synchronic or ‘momentaneous dialectics’ of ontological categories -- categories understood to be ‘arithmoi’, i.e., “numbers [of monads or units, all of a definite single kind]” in the ancient sense, and also as categorial units in their own right -- which, per its ‘dialectogram’ diagrams, is also ‘vertical dialectic’, with diachronic or ‘historical dialectics’, which, per those same diagrams, is also ‘horizontal/rightward dialectic’, finding the universal ‘aufheben’ relation/process of ‘meta-monad-ization’ to be central to both.

This theory also supplies a ‘mathematics of dialectics’, one that mimes both ‘vertical dialectic’ and ‘horizontal dialect’, which, in its standard ‘dialectical-analytical-geometric’, ‘dialectogram’ diagrams, are also co-depicted and ‘inter-related’.

Volume 3 applies that unified theory to the ontological content of cosmological Natural History.

It uses the first axioms-system of ‘mathematics of dialectics’ in this treatise’s dialectical progression of axioms-systems of ‘mathematics of dialectics’, also modeled via one of its ‘dialectical meta-equations’, to construct diverse human-social ‘dialectical meta-equations’ for key Domains of human history, as well as for, in its last section, the [singular] ‘Dialectic of Nature’ as the whole, historical human natures included.

Each such ‘meta-equation’ is ‘‘‘made up out of’’’, i.e., implicitly ‘aufheben-contains’, a qualitatively, ontologically heterogeneous multiplicity of mere equations, one ontologically-distinct mere equation for each value of its historical epoch variable.

These ‘meta-equations’ cover the core constituent ‘historical dialectics’ that make up what the authors call ‘The Seldonian Psychohistorical-Dialectical [Meta-]Equations’.

Each such ‘Psychohistorical-Dialectical Meta-Equation’ describes, ontologically, and categorially, a key aspect of human history as a whole.

These ‘meta-equations’ include ‘[psycho]historical-dialectical mathematical meta-models’ of (1) the dialectic of the [psycho]historical progression of human social formations, (2) the dialectic of human-social ‘Ideology\Knowledge’ formations [for the ‘ideo-ontological’ categories of Mythologies, Religions, Philosophies, Sciences, and ‘Psychohistories’], (3) the dialectic of the social relations of production, (4) the dialectic of the social forces of production, and (5) the [psycho]historical ‘dialectic of the dialectic itself’, as well as a progression of ‘systematic-dialectical meta-models’ of the [tables-of-]contents of Marx’s Capital: A Critique of Political Economy.

In my view, it would have been better, for the ‘meta-equation’ mapping the historical progression of human-social Ideology\Knowledge formation(s), to have selected the [primitive] Arts as the starting ‘ideo-ontological category’, or ‘arche’-category’.

The petroglyph rock-wall carvings, cave-wall-paintings, and “Mother Goddess”, etc., fired clay effigies, and so on, that we have found, in modern times, surviving from remote antiquity, are also works of ‘Ideology\Knowledge’.

Their authors struggled toward ‘Knowledge’ in their efforts to aptly represent the landscapes of Nature, plants, other animals, and humans, etc.

No doubt they are also works of ‘Ideology’ and mystification, e.g., in attempting to “capture” and “magically” control the natural forces and natural agents that they depict, via “mimesis” -- via these humans-crafted ‘’‘images’’’ of those natural forces and agents.

Both as beginnings of ‘Knowledge’, and as beginnings of ‘Ideology’, they became ingredient in -- ‘aufheben’-integrated into -- the next, later-born stage of ‘Ideology\Knowledge’ -- “Mythopoeias”.

Volume 3 culminates with the exposition of a progression of single ‘dialectical meta-equations’, each covering the known ‘meta-evolution’ of our cosmos as a whole, ontologically and categorially, with increasing fitness to its qualitative, ontological data.

Each single equation in this progression maps the singular ‘Dialectic of Nature’ -- The Historical Dialectic of Natural History as Total History -- in an increasingly-detailed degree.