Abstract

The emergence of global first philosophy -- Prologue: Qest for the missing grammar of global logos -- Essays : explorations in global first philosophy -- Overview: Orientation to the essays -- Introduction: Entering the space of global first philosophy -- Essay l: the quest for the universal global science -- Essay 2: logos as the infinite primal word : the global essence of language -- Essay 3: logos and the global mind : the awakening story -- Essay 4: the emergence of logos in classical Greek thought -- Essay 5: logos and the dialogical turn : dialogical awakening in the global evolution of cultures -- Essay 6: the continuing quest for primal knowledge -- Essay 7: logos as the foundation of global ethics : dialogical awakening as the key to global ethics -- Essay 8: meditative reason and the holistic turn to global philosophy prologue -- Essay 9: meditative reason and the missing logic of logos -- Essay 10: logos of Tao : the primal logic of translability -- Essay 11: Nagarjuna and the end of global suffering.