{"product_id":"what-we-are-michael-l-adix-9798950262043","title":"What We Are: A Personal Philosophy for the Age of Science - Volume II - The Integrated Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat We Are: The Integrated Life is the second volume of an original philosophical system. Where Volume I establishes the metaphysics - what reality is, what consciousness is, what time and identity and causation are - this volume turns the same two axioms toward the questions that cannot be deferred: how should one live, what is worth caring about, and what makes a life add up to anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the framework of Integrative Dual-Aspect Monism, Volume II derives a substantive ethics grounded in the structure of consciousness itself, an account of beauty as integrative resonance, a theory of political justice built from the inside-out fact of subjective experience, and a treatment of meaning that neither dissolves into pure subjectivity nor pretends to cosmic guarantees. Each conclusion is tested against its sharpest critics - Rawls, Nozick, Camus, Nagel, Frankfurt - before it is allowed to stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume closes with a long meditation on death, written from inside a career that returns to it daily. The Walter Drummond chapter follows a single patient across eight years and three procedures, ending with the only sentence in the book Vonnegut would recognize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the practical half of the system: what the metaphysics is for. For readers who came to Volume I for the theory and stayed for the question of what to do with their one finite, integrated, conscious life. Reading Volume I first is recommended but not required.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Derek Parfit, Iris Murdoch, Viktor Frankl, and Thomas Nagel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael L. Adix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798950262043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Intrinsic Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Michael L. Adix","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48874745004287,"sku":"9798950262043","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-we-are-michael-l-adix-9798950262043","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}