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Publisher: Sakellariadou Evangelia
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Modern Metaphysical Legacy is a philosophical treatise for the modern reader who has outgrown both religious dogma and scientific materialism but refuses to settle for vague spirituality in their place. Panos Sakelis sets out to redraw the map of human existence from first principles.
His central thesis is precise: the ancient conflict between Science and Metaphysics is not a conflict between truth and error, but between two adjacent territories of the same infinite landscape. Where one ends, the other begins. What changes over time is only the boundary between them.
But the book's real subject is the human being. Sakelis argues that each person operates on two distinct, irreducible levels. The first is the Individual Ego, the field of survival, desire, relationship, and social identity. The second is what he calls the Transcendent I Am, a dimension of the self oriented not toward earthly function but toward what he terms the Cosmic Logos, the organizing principle of existence itself. Most human suffering, he contends, arises from reading the questions of one level through the categories of the other.
Across fourteen chapters, the treatise moves through a vast terrain: the origins of consciousness and identity, the architecture of the soul, the three registers of love, the meaning of death and what follows it, the difference between loneliness and solitude, the evolutionary trajectory of humanity, and the endemic fraud of spiritual teachers who manufacture dependence rather than freedom.
Throughout, Sakelis employs two ancient tools, the logic of measure and the law of analogy, to keep his reasoning disciplined and his language clear. He is equally hostile to mystical vagueness and to materialist reductionism.
The treatise closes with its most personal and demanding chapter: the responsibility of fulfillment. No teacher, tradition, or system can complete a human life. Each person must build their own biotheory, a living, revisable set of principles derived not from books but from honest confrontation with lived experience. This is the only metaphysics, Sakelis concludes, that withstands time.
Modern Metaphysical Legacy is a serious work written for readers who are ready to think for themselves.
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