Readers who desire to judge the philosophy's practical value may prefer to skip ahead to Chapter 18. Metaphysics by Default can be useful to the ethicist or ecologist, and Chapter 18 explores this potential utility. Readers who wonder at the inclusion of so much history in a modern work should hazard first the dedication of Chapter 19. The dedication invokes qualities of Hellenic spirit which are lost to us, and which this modern essay perforce recovers. A schedule l ists the dates of upcoming public lectures, along with transcripts and abstracts from previous lectures.
Appendices organize the essay's ancillary software programs and mathematical derivations.
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