Moral Ontology: a thesis on the interdependence of sense, integrity and agency - Hardcover

by Michael Kowalik (Author)

Michael Kowalik is an academically published philosopher writing on ethics, logic and theory of consciousness. Drawing on his formal model of reflexive consciousness, the author examines the causative relationship between logic, morality and conscious agency, which renders morality 'realist' in the sense that our actions have inescapable consequences for our capacities as agent. In addition to formulating an analytical framework for rationally solving complex moral dilemmas, the author defends the claim that the structure of sense, internalised as the logical consistency of Self-ideation with respect to other beings of the same kind, determines not only the moral integrity of our conduct but the ontological integrity of the Self, and that objective morality is not an impediment to conscious agency but its optimal realisation; the essence of creative power over meaning, which is the ultimate self-interest.