Intercultural Modes of Philosophy, Volume One: Principles to Guide Philosophical Community

Acknowledgments -- part 1: Method and Historical Precedent -- Preface -- Introduction -- Intercultural Modes of Philosophy -- Philo-Dynamic Images -- Philosophical Community as an Intercultural Mode of Philosophy - Some Brief Historical Sketches -- The Emergence of Professional Philosophy -- Living Philosophical Communities -- The Logic of the "Principles" for the Method of Radically Empirical Philosophy of Culture -- part 2: The Principles -- 1 The Peculiar General Principles of Philosophical Community -- 1#The Order of Exhibition -- 2#Overview of the Peculiar General Principles of Philosophical Community -- 3#Philosophical Community Ought to Enrich Life through Praxis -- 4#Philosophical Community Ought to Have Ethics as First Philosophy -- 5#Philosophical Community Ought to Have as Its Purpose Dialectical Adherence to the Beloved Community -- 6#Philosophical Community Ought Actively to Include a Reflective Imperative of Loyalty to Its Way of Life -- 7#Philosophical Community Ought to Postulate the Ontological Distance between Experience and Existence -- 8#Philosophical Community Ought to Have a Tragicomic Sensibility -- 9#Philosophical Community Ought to Sankofa -- 10#Philosophical Community Ought to Be a Cosmopolitan Place -- 11#Overview of Dialectics -- 12#Dialectics I ( Sankofa and Place) -- 2 The Personal Axiological Principles of Philosophical Community -- 1#Overview of the Personal Axiological Principles of Philosophical Community -- 2#Philosophical Community Ought to Develop Mutually Reinforced Enkrateia -- 3#Philosophical Community Ought to Strive to Be an Intelligible Symbol of Ethical Exemplarity -- 4#Philosophical Community Ought to Cultivate Value and Determine "Better" Persons -- 5#Philosophical Community Ought to Tend to the Care of Oneself -- 6#Philosophical Community Ought to Quest for a Good Existence -- 7#Philosophical Community Ought to the Cultivate the Leisure of Punakawan -- 8#Philosophical Community Ought to Incite Communal Errantry -- 9#Philosophical Community Ought to Democratically Enhouse -- 10#Dialectics II (Errantry and Enhousing ) -- 3 The Concrete Cultural Principles of Philosophical Community -- 1#Overview of the Concrete Cultural Principles of Philosophical Community -- 2#Philosophical Community Advances Eudaimonia -- 3#Philosophical Community Attends to Its Present Situation -- 4#Philosophical Community Is Small -- 5#Philosophical Community Produces Lingua Francas for Iconoclasm -- 6#Philosophical Community Has an Oikonomia -- 4 The Dialectically Propitiated Principles of Philosophical Community (the Nature of Rhizomatic Wandering) -- 1#Overview of the Dialectically Propitiated Principles of Philosophical Community and the Nature of Rhizomatic Wandering -- 2#Philosophical Community Performs Polyrhythmic Philia -- 3#Philosophical Community Leads Culture by the Reconstruction of Experience -- 4#Philosophical Community Is Impoverished -- 5#Philosophical Community Ripens Cosmological Contemplation -- 6#Philosophical Community Engages in Eutopian Politics -- Conclusion: The Constellation of Principles at a Turning Point in Culture and Nature -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: The Systemic Scheme and Glossary -- Appendix 2: Research Plan, Methods for Site Visits, and Primary Source Research -- Bibliography -- Index.