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If I had been able to consummate my vision, an infinite amount of empirical study would be included, or at least referenced here in Volume II of A NEW FOUNDATION FOR CIVILIZATION. This material would have supported every speculation, idea, theory, or suggestion included in VOLUME I (titled: SCIENCE OF ETHICS: A User's Guide for Modern Humans). However, for obvious reasons this was not possible. I can only hope that enough material has been presented so that the merit of this project is clear and that others will be willing to tackle whatever area captures their imagination and carry out the study, analysis, research, and integration of the data and its dissemination to the world to make known whether their efforts support, refute, or indicate that some totally different approach is needed.

VOLUME II, by and large, is a first effort to look as deeply as time, ability, and available data allow to determine how congruent all the ideas in VOLUME I are. Congruency supported by empirical evidence is the criteria of success in my mind.

One method used here is to take a seminal book with important ideas essential to a Science of Ethics and use it as a way of exploring these ideas. Key thoughts of the author of that valuable source are presented and then responded to as if this were a dialogue. This technique has been very useful for me because examining a challenging concept -- over an extended period of time, from various perspectives, repeatedly -- provides a tool for focusing thought more deeply than would otherwise be possible. Most chapters in VOLUME II use this structure though they are in various stages of assimilation.

But in some cases the seminal resources cannot be provided at this time. In these instances the reader will be referred to the seminal document and some general introductory remarks provided. However, the reader would do well to go to the original source in all cases to better understand what is being discussed. At least in some cases what I'm saying may be misleading without the original material.

In an ideal world my responses would then be answered by the author so they would have a chance to clarify their own thinking and meaning. At the same time reader's comments, criticisms, suggestions, offers to help are warmly solicited. This kind of back and forth is necessary in order to move discussion significantly forward.

VOLUME II: CONTENTS

i. INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II .................................../wi.html

1. CHAPTER 1, LEVELS OF MEMBERSHIP IN A WISDOM GROUP .... /wchap1a.html

2. CHAPTER 2, BECOMING YOUR BEST SELF ................... wchap2a.html

3a. A. THE ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITY ... wchap3a1.html

3b. B. WALTER LIPPMANN AND THE GOOD SOCIETY....... wchap3b.html

3c. C. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AND THE GOOD SOCIETY......../wchap3c.html

4. CHAPTER 4, NURTURING TOUCH AND A SFLIHM .......................... /wchap4.html

5a. A. INTIMACY AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS ................... /wchap5a.html

5b. B. THE MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF LONELINESS ............. /wchap5b.html

6. CHAPTER 6, LOVE AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS .......................... /wchap6.html

7. CHAPTER 7, AFFILIATIVE LOVE AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS .... /wchap7.html

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8. CHAPTER 8, FINDING A PARTNER TO LOVE ........................... /wchap8.html

9. CHAPTER 9, HOW TO KEEP A PARTNER .................................

A. Going Beyond Romantic Love ......................../wchap9aintro.html

B. Why Marriages Succeed or Fail ................. /wchap9b1.html

10. CHAPTER 10, SCIENCE AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH ......../wchap10.html

A. A. Hans Reichenbach ....................... /wchap10.html

B. B. Thomas Kuhn ....................... /wchap10b1.html

C. C. Roger G. Newton ....................... /wchap10c.html

11. CHAPTER 11, VICTOR FRANKL AND THE MEANING OF LIFE .... /wchap11.html

12. CHAPTER 12, THE MEANING OF PAIN .................................. /wchap12.html

13. CHAPTER 13, A MODERN LOOK AT FEELINGS ........................... /chap13.html

14. CHAPTER 14, BIONOMICS -- ECONOMICS AND THE ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITY .................................................................... /wchap14a.html

15. CHAPTER 15, THE HUNTER-GATHERER AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS (featuring Steven Mithen) .......... /wchap15a.html

16. CHAPTER 16, CHAOS AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS ........................ /chap16.html

17. CHAPTER 17, FUZZY LOGIC AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS .... /wchap17.html

18. CHAPTER 18, ETHICS, MORALITY, AND SCIENCE
A. Frans De Waal ---------------/wchap18a.html

B. WHAT FUZZY LOGIC CAN TEACH US ABOUT ETHICS, MORALITY, AND SCIENCE......................./wchap18b.html

19. CHAPTER 19, KNOWLEDGE BANK AND AN ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITY
..................................... /wchap19.html

20. CHAPTER 20, HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS ............. /wchap20

21. CHAPTER 21, LIVING SPACE FOR THE ENLIGHTED PERSON ..... /wchap21

22. CHAPTER 22, RESEARCH AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ..... /wchap22.html

A. A CLOSE LOOK AT THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM .......................... /wchap22a.html

B. COULD SCIENCE IMPROVE THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM? ...................../wchap22b.html

23. CHAPTER 23, HUMAN CENTERED TREATMENT PROGRAMS ..... /wchap23.html

A. Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program of Santa Clara County

B. S.M.A.R.T. Recovery from Substance Abuse

24. CHAPTER 24, WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE STUDY OF FOLK RELIGIONS?

A. BUDDHISM AND HINDUISM ................ /wchap24a.html

B. CHRISTIANITY AND FEUERBACK...................../wchap24b.html

C. IS JUDAISM A FOLK RELIGION?...................../wchap24c.html

D. ISLAM ...................................../wchap24d.html

25. CHAPTER 25
A. A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE AND THE SCIENCE OF ETHICS ........... /wchap25a.html

B. THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT, By Steven Pinker ....... /wchap25b.html

C. THE EVOLUTIONARY PATH TO LANGUAGE -- Terrence Deacon ....... /wchap25c.html

D. GEORGE BERNARD SHAWS'S PHONETIC ENGLISH ALPHABET ....... /wchap25d.html

  E. THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS ....... /wchap25e.html

26. CHAPTER 26, TYPE TALK -- PERSONALITY TYPES AND THE ENLIGHTENED PERSON ...................................................... /wchap26.html

27. CHAPTER 27, "WILL POWER" AND FREE CHOICE ....................... /wchap27.html

28. CHAPTER 28, MANAGING CHANGE IN AN ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITY .. /wchap28.html

29. CHAPTER 29, HOW MUCH IS A HUMAN LIFE WORTH? ........ /wchap29.html

30. CHAPTER 30, EDUCATION IN AN ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITY .. /wchap30.html

31. CHAPTER 31, ART AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS .......................... /wchap31.html

32. CHAPTER 32, SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE ................................ /wchap32.html

33. CHAPTER 33, MEDIATION AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS .. /wchap33.html

34. CHAPTER 34, WORK AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS .... /wchap34.html

35. CHAPTER 35, MY STORY (UNABRIDGED VERSION) .. /wchap35a.html

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36. CHAPTER 36, THE PROMISE OF SLEEP ........... /wchap36a.html

37. CHAPTER 37, MYSTICISM AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS .. /wchap37.html

38. CHAPTER 38, BELIEF AND A SCIENCE OF ETHICS .. /wchap38.html