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AbstractNatural philosophy is being revived by way of grounding it in thermodynamics and information theory. This discourse systematizes information from all the sciences so that every field of knowledge of nature supports every other as parts of a concept of general evolution. The point is to construct an intelligible picture of the world. Change in material systems involves both development and evolution. General evolution is primarily developmental, and the specification hierarchy of integrative levels can be used to model it. In this hierarchy, biology is seen as a kind of material system, and social phenomena as kinds of biological systems. This pattern implies there was a tendency toward psychology on the earth. This scheme is biased by having been produced by psychological, social, biological beings, integrating humans with the rest of nature, and so it embodies valuation. Natural philosophy welcomes values in its constructions. There has never been a culture without an origination myth; general evolution, as constructed within natural philosophy, differs by referring to its own genesis within a picture of the genesis of the world. Copyright © 2001 International Society for the Systems Sciences.

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Sociology Reconsidered -- Chapter 2. Forms of Sociability -- Chapter 3. Forms of Culturalization -- Chapter 4. Intimate Relations -- Chapter 5. Personality and Individual Differences -- Chapter 6. Individual Ethics -- Chapter 7. Human Nature -- Epilogue.

1. Facts and propositions -- 2. Particular,s predicates, and relations -- 3. Atomic and molecular propositions -- 4. Propositions and facts with more than one verb : beliefs, etc. -- 5. General propositions and existence -- 6. Descriptions and incomplete symbols -- 7. The theory of types and symbolism : classes -- 8. Excursus into metaphysics : what there is.

The first book on Nietzsche ever to appear in English, this examination by legendary journalist H. L. Mencken is still one of the most enlightening. Mencken wrote this book while still in his 20s, but his penchant for thoroughness was evident even at that young age-in preparation for writing this book, he read Nietzsche's works in their entirety, mostly in the original German. A brief biographical sketch is followed by clear and thorough explanations of Nietzsche's basic concepts and attitudes. Analyzed are Nietzsche's much-misunderstood concept of the superman, his concept of eternal recurren

The article tracks the development of Agnes Heller's political philosophy as it evolves through the Marxism and reform communism of her years as a dissent Hungarian intellectual, followed by the period of her encounters with the Western Left and with the currents of postmodern liberalism.