Fons Doctrina: The source of teaching
Josefsson, John
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Add to basketSold by Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
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Condition: New
Quantity: 4 available
Add to basketWhy does anything exist at all?
This ancient question has haunted philosophy for millennia. Most answers require faith-belief in God, cosmic purpose, or mystical forces beyond reason. Fons Doctrina takes a different path: pure logic.
Starting from a single irrefutable premise-that absolute nothingness is impossible-this contemplative work of philosophy builds a complete understanding of reality. Through rigorous yet accessible reasoning, it reveals why space, time, causality, and consciousness must exist. Not as accidents, but as structural necessities.
You are not an accident. You are a required observer in a self-referential universe. Your consciousness serves a cosmic function: to be the universe's way of knowing itself from your unique position. This is not religious doctrine. This is logical necessity.
But necessity offers no comfort about death. You will end. Completely. Finally. No afterlife, no reunion, no personal survival. The wave subsides into the ocean. The crystallization melts. The lens breaks.
How do you live knowing this?
Fons Doctrina is both philosophical argument and practical guide. It moves from abstract ontology to concrete practice-from "why anything exists" to "how to prepare for death." The prose is poetic yet precise, contemplative yet rigorous-designed to be read slowly, returned to frequently, lived with daily.
For readers who have left religion but seek meaning. For those who want Tao Te Ching without mysticism, philosophy without jargon, truth without sweetening. For anyone facing mortality and wanting honest answers.
This is wisdom literature for the post-religious age. A book to think with. A book to die with. A book that treats you as what you are: temporary awareness, here now, observing clearly until dissolution comes.
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