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Serialised book (with a progressively updated >>dashboard/ToC<< page). Part III: Philosophy of the Life Instinct

Book: Philosophy of Life Instinct: Epilogue

The end of a journey

Thank you, my online reader, for your company while I wrote out this book. It was the last leg of a journey I set out on thirty years ago, which began as a quest for ultimate understanding and answers but also became one for adequate expression. The sum has been much more than the parts, as the mutual shaping of thoughts and language is fascinating.

Every time I read what I’ve written, I find room for saying it better, and new ideas effervesce in my mind. It would be the pleasurable agony familiar to every writer.

I know I’ll capture any compelling new ideas in other books or essays, and I may revise the nuances of this book in future editions. But, unless there is a groundbreaking discovery on the origins or nature of the Life Instinct or Free Will, we will not need fundamental changes to the views of this book on why we are as we are, where it originates, and what to do with it all.

Still, what we know and think is immeasurably tiny compared to the entirety of existence, and it would be foolish hubris to deny other possibilities. We may never know what we don’t know and will never know what we cannot know.

But within our little existence in a minuscule backwater of the cosmos, this Philosophy of Life Instinct may help us see our behaviour and problems from the perspective to work with them broadly, wisely and elegantly, because we can.

I hope you enjoyed this book and will benefit from it throughout your life. You’ll find it in electronic, paperback and hardbound versions at the usual sources.

It would be a pleasure to hear from you, ladies and gentlemen. Would you please post your thoughts on my website quality-thinking.com, LinkedIn, Medium, or where you find this book online?

I wish you a graceful life.

© 2021 Shashidhar Sastry. All rights reserved.

(As each chapter of the book is published, its link is updated in the ToC below.)

Table of Contents

Part I Metaphysics of The Life Instinct

Part II Philosophy of The Life Instinct

Part III The Life Instinct and The Future

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