Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations

First Published in 2002

In Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations explores ideas about space and time that are unique to the history of philosophy and align with the new physics.

A well-grounded metaphysics is presented, offering a safe haven between stifling scepticism and wild imagination. An original philosophical method is demonstrated, sharply demarcating philosophy from the empirical sciences.

A new foundation for ethics is laid by grounding ethics on the author's psycho-biological deduction of the emotions, providing a progressive model to replace the Freudian paradigm.

An originally designed trans-cultural ethics, doubly grounded in both Eastern and Western thought, offers an antidote to the contemporary retreat into relativism.

Insights from biology, psychology, evolutionary theory, and ethics are brought together in a unique and fruitful synthesis. At the same time, human barbarisms such as the Holocaust are pointed to as reminders that there are just limits to compassion.

This book presents a sophisticated text for metaphysics, epistemology, and systematic ethics.