My latest book

QUEST OF REALITY

Dear Reader,
Allow me a few minutes of your time and attention to tell you about my latest book, Quest of Reality, which has just been published, and which, considering I am approaching the close of my eighty-seventh year, will probably be my last.
In this book I present anew the philosophy I have been offering in all of my former books by tracing the human quest of reality from the earliest gropings in myths and religions – the most primitive and the most sophisticated – to the speculations of philosophers, and end up by giving my personal vision, for which I claim no more than that — a personal vision of one mind that wrestled with the mysteries of being and life and value.
Perhaps the following paragraph from Chapter Seventeen gives the gist of the “quest”:
“The alpha and the omega of all wisdom is that humans have wandered far and wide in quest of reality to find in the end that the reality they sought is within them. The reality that in seeking they created, the only reality accessible to them, is their own reality; and that reality is not Being, is not Essence, is not Knowledge, but is their own Creativity, is love that out of its fullness creates ever new dream worlds.”
If these words sound too far removed from the turmoil and the conflicts of our actual world, let me give the following excerpts from the final chapter:
“Humans now (2013) number seven billion, spread over some 200 political units. More than half of all humans now living live in misery, suffering hunger and disease and ignorance. Many countries are locked in conflict, strife, and mutual destruction. Within the more fortunate countries, there is much injustice and much suffering. And within the privileged minorities in those countries, happiness is a rare thing, not because life is and will always remain necessarily tragic, but because our ruling philosophies of life are false.”
“The ultimate aim of civilization should be to unite all people on this our tiny planet in one family, one loving, caring family, where no members can be happy or comfortable when one single member is afflicted. As Albert Schweitzer has wisely said, ‘Where there is lost the consciousness that every man is an object of concern for us just because he is a man, civilisation and morals are shaken, and the advance to fully developed inhumanity is only a question of time.’”
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Cairo, 1 May 2013.

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