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What We Are: A Personal Philosophy for the Age of Science - Volume II - The Integrated Life
Hardcover
Series: What We Are, Book 2
Publisher Price: $29.99
Publisher: Intrinsic Press
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What We Are: The Integrated Life is the second volume of an original philosophical system. Where Volume I establishes the metaphysics - what reality is, what consciousness is, what time and identity and causation are - this volume turns the same two axioms toward the questions that cannot be deferred: how should one live, what is worth caring about, and what makes a life add up to anything.
From the framework of Integrative Dual-Aspect Monism, Volume II derives a substantive ethics grounded in the structure of consciousness itself, an account of beauty as integrative resonance, a theory of political justice built from the inside-out fact of subjective experience, and a treatment of meaning that neither dissolves into pure subjectivity nor pretends to cosmic guarantees. Each conclusion is tested against its sharpest critics - Rawls, Nozick, Camus, Nagel, Frankfurt - before it is allowed to stand.
The volume closes with a long meditation on death, written from inside a career that returns to it daily. The Walter Drummond chapter follows a single patient across eight years and three procedures, ending with the only sentence in the book Vonnegut would recognize.
This is the practical half of the system: what the metaphysics is for. For readers who came to Volume I for the theory and stayed for the question of what to do with their one finite, integrated, conscious life. Reading Volume I first is recommended but not required.
For readers of Derek Parfit, Iris Murdoch, Viktor Frankl, and Thomas Nagel.
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