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✦ THE HIGHEST HOPE ✦

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✦ THE HIGHEST HOPE ✦ Apocatastasis, the End of All Suffering, and the Liberation and Salvation of All Sentient Beings A Philosophical, Theological, Mystical, and Interdisciplinary Discussion Paper The highest conceivable victory of goodness is not merely that evil should be defeated, but that every being wounded, corrupted, imprisoned, or estranged by evil should ultimately be healed, liberated, and restored—until no suffering remains unredeemed, no creature remains abandoned, and no enmity remains eternal. ABSTRACT Among the most profound questions ever raised by religion, philosophy, and moral imagination is whether the final destiny of existence is universal reconciliation. Can all sentient beings ultimately be liberated from suffering? Can every sinner be redeemed, every enemy reconciled, every injustice answered, and every wounded consciousness healed? Can evil itself come to an end without requiring the eternal destruction, exclusion, or abandonment of those whom it has ...
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Infinite Semasiology

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  Infinite Semasiology The Bottomless Depths of Words, the Inexhaustibility of Meaning, and the Infinite Logos An interdisciplinary philosophical and mystical treatise on the possibility that every word opens into an inexhaustible universe of meanings, interpretations, relationships, and realities. “A word is not exhausted by what it has meant, what it means, or even what it could presently be imagined to mean. Every word stands at the threshold of meanings not yet born.” Abstract Semasiology, the linguistic study of meaning beginning with words and expressions, ordinarily concerns itself with the meanings that linguistic forms possess, the historical processes by which meanings change, and the cognitive and social mechanisms through which meanings emerge. Yet beneath these empirical investigations lies a philosophical question of extraordinary depth: Is the meaning of a word fundamentally exhaustible? This paper introduces Infinite Semasiology , a speculative philosophical ...
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