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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="044085a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Carmine Gorga</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Carmine Gorga"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jubilation"><U>Jubilation</U></A>   |   <B>Rules</B>   |   <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brandeis"><U>Brandeis</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="045d2e83.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="05b6fa20.jpg" border=0 width="111" height="162" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jubilation"><U>Jubilation</U></A></div> <div>                    <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rules"><U>Rules</U></A></div> <div>              <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Brandeis"><U>Brandeis</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Rules</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> A</div> <div> Book Proposal</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>The Rules of Civilized Discourse </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>On the Transformation of Rationalism Into Relationalism</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>January 2006</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Carmine Gorga, Ph.D.</B></div> <div> <B>87 Middle Street, Gloucester, MA 01930</B></div> <div> <B>    </B><I><B>       </B></I><B>978-283-5926 </B><I><B>   Fax and Voice:</B></I><B>  978-283-4936  </B></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:cgorga@jhu.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:cgorga@jhu.edu"><U><B><U>cgorga(AT)jhu.edu</U></B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Prospectus</I></div> <bR> <div> I<I>.   Description of the Book</I></div> <div>      </div> <div> There is no denying the ravages of reductionism in the natural no less than the social sciences: music has been reduced to the composition of individual notes; theater to the meaning of silence; aesthetics to the appreciation of the ugly; biology has been reduced to sex; physics to force/energy; economics to money; morality to economic inefficiency; philosophy to the study of the structure of individual words. This book observes these phenomena as stemming from the same source: the disintegration of the linear form of analysis characteristic of rationalism into the analysis of separate points. Hence the proposed book uniquely suggests that solutions to the limitations of reductionism lie in the transformation of rationalism into relationalism. Relationalism does not destroy rationalism; on the contrary, by restoring the importance of linear analysis and expanding it into the analysis of spheres, relationalism brings rationalism to its full bloom. The basic proposition of relationalism is that “everything is related to everything else.” While this formula is old and prevalent in various forms of mysticism, the technical method of relationalism is new. The method includes not only the use of logic, epistemology, and rhetoric but also geometry and mathematics; and consistently applying the same rules-ancient rules of civilized discourse-to a variety of mental disciplines, the book shows that there is a seamless reality in which everything is indeed related to everything else.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> II.   <I> <A NAME="ole_link1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I><I>Synopsis</I></div> <bR> <div>      The book is divided into three parts, surrounded by a preface, an introduction, and an epilogue. The preface outlines the hypothesis that the world today is controlled by punctilionism: a multiplicity of small groups punctiliously defending their analysis of small points. The introduction points out that words by themselves have no meaning, and that even sentences have no meaning unless they are incorporated into a system of thought: do two parallel lines meet? Then the introduction presents a brief summary of the plan of the book. </div> <div>           The first part systematically fashions the relational method of analysis. It starts with the formulation of relational logic, in which the principles of identity and non-contradiction are preserved and the principle of equivalence is allowed to replace the ever changing third principle of earlier systems of logic. A close reading of Marshack's <I>The Roots of Civilization</I> reveals that relational logic was used by our Cro-Magnon man, until the Greeks used the principle of equivalence to create the syllogism and emasculated our ancestral system of logic by replacing the principle of equivalence with the principle of excluded middle. Next, after giving a flavor of the current status of epistemology, the book distinguishes among the following synthesizers of information: facts, names, ideas, concepts, theories, and systems of thought. These tools are integrated into the beginnings of relational epistemology. The next chapter points out that since everyone uses grammar, syntax, and rhetoric-even mathematicians do it-the relational method of analysis necessarily relies upon these tools of linguistics to accomplish its work. Next, the book points out that no method of analysis would even be thinkable today if it did not include the use of geometry-especially fractal geometry-and mathematics. The chapter focuses on how a point is transformed into a line (the geometry of rationalism) and a line into a sphere (the geometry of relationalism), then it shows how mathematics is based on this equivalence relation: 0 = 1 = Infinity . Thus the book establishes not only the limits of measurability in science, but especially that geometry and mathematics are also fashioned out of the same relational method of analysis that is presented in this book. This part formally fuses the various disciplines into the relational method of analysis and suggests that we need a theory of complementary knowledge: most dichotomies of the rational mind, such as being and not-being, can be dissolved first by linking them with the “and-also” conjunction and then often they can be resolved by making recourse to the principle of equivalence, whereby a third term is found to synthesize both terms of the dichotomy.</div> <div>           The second part of the book applies the relational method to a variety of disciplines. It first observes the dynamics of biology. Eschewing the conception of the linear food chain to encompass the organic predator-prey model, one opens up new vistas for the fisheries of a community such as Gloucester, Massachusetts. Next the book observes Concordian economics. This is a structure at three levels that integrates theory, policy, and practice and renders daily problems more amenable to satisfactory solutions for all participants in the economic process. The book then outlines the theory of economic justice-by adding the plank of participative justice to the two traditional planks of distributive and commutative justice. The book also tries to overcome the shortcomings of both Individualism and Collectivism, by offering the synthesis of Somism: the theory and practice of the social man, the civilized person. This part ends with the outline of the structure of relational ontology: namely, Being/Becoming/Existence. Thus rationalism becomes relationalism.</div> <div>           Pointing out that religion is an affair of the heart, the third part of the book goes beyond rationalism to reach relational theology and mysticism.</div> <div>           The epilogue suggests that relationalism is necessary not only as an intellectual endeavor; it is also a practical tool to solve many intricate problems of poverty, inflation, and pollution; indeed, the epilogue concludes that we either open up a deep, respectful dialogue within the various intellectual disciplines and between the “two cultures” as well as among all religions or we will drop into a world of horror. Relationalism holds the hope that the future does not necessarily need to be worse than the past. The search for the ancient ideal of the Civilized Society must start anew. This search will establish firm roots if, amidst the  <A NAME="ole_link2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>cacophony of the cliques and the fractured intellectual disciplines of the moment, the right to a civilized discourse is recognized as an essential right of men and women, by accepting the responsibility to follow ancient rules rediscovered in this book, organized as a coherent method of analysis, and indeed already profitably tested in a variety of published cases during the last forty years.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> III. <I>Intended Audience</I></div> <bR> <div> In addition to the mythologized intelligent reader, the intended audience is composed of scholars and undergraduates who hunger for an organic understanding of the world. Professionals who have observed that there are interconnections among various disciplines will find this book quite enlightening. Professionals who look forward to a renewal of their own discipline will find the book most useful, notably professionals in such disciplines as Philosophy, Logic, Epistemology, Theory of Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Political Science, Theory of Justice, Theology, and Mysticism.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> IV. <I>Table of Contents</I></div> <div> <B>     Preface</B></div> <div> <B>     Introduction</B></div> <div> <B>     Acknowledgements</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Part I - A Relational Method of Analysis</div> <bR> <div>      1.  <B>Tolerance, Understanding, and Systems of Logic</B> </div> <div>      2.  <B>Tools of Epistemology: The Synthesizers of Information</B></div> <div>      3.  <B>Three Legs of Linguistics</B></div> <div>      4.<B>   Essentials of Geometry and Mathematics</B> </div> <div>      5. <B> Toward a Theory of Complementary Knowledge</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Part II - Some Applications</div> <div> From Rationalism to Relationalism</div> <bR> <div>      6.   <B>Dynamics of Biology as Experienced in the Fisheries</B> </div> <div>      7<B>.   The Foundation of Concordian Economics </B></div> <div>      8<B>.   Toward Economic Justice</B> </div> <div>      9<B>.    Beyond Individualism and Collectivism: Somism</B> </div> <div> <B>    </B>10<B>.  The Structure of Relational Ontology </B></div> <div> <B>    </B>11<B>.   From Rationalism to Relationalism</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Part III - And Beyond</div> <bR> <div>      12.   <B>Relational Theology </B></div> <div>      13.  <B> Landing into Mysticism </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     Epilogue </B></div> <div> <B>     Footnotes</B></div> <div> <B>     Index</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> V.  A sample chapter, eventually to be adapted as Introduction, is attached. Its current title is “The Relational Method of Analysis: With Three Applications”.</div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> VI. <I>Expected Length</I></div> <bR> <div>      The book will have an estimated 90,000 words.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> VII. <I>Expected Number of Illustrations</I></div> <bR> <div>      There will be an estimated 45 illustrations. These are linear diagrams whose format can be found in the attached sample chapter. They are currently produced in Word; they will be drawn professionally.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> VIII. <I>Estimated delivery date </I></div> <bR> <div>      Estimated delivery date is approximately six months after acceptance of proposal.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>     </div> <div> IX.                                  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>Carmine Gorga's Short CV</I></FONT></div> <bR> <div>      Carmine Gorga is a former Fulbright scholar. Using the relational method of analysis, in a book and a series of papers Mr. Gorga has shown how to bend the linear world of economic theory into a relational discipline in which everything is related to everything else-internally as well as externally. He was assisted in this endeavor for twenty-seven years by Professor Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate in economics from MIT. The book, entitled "The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture", was published in 2002. It was reviewed in December 2003 in the <I>Journal of Economic Literature</I>. The reviewer realized that the book is the product of a "remorseless logician" and dismissed it-citing words Keynes used to dismiss Hayek, a future Nobel laureate in economics. During the last few years, Dr. Gorga has intensified his work on the technical rules of civilized discourse that he has followed in his research and he is bringing forward some of the broad implications of those rules for our modern culture. For details, see <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.carmine-gorga.us" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.carmine-gorga.us"><U><U>www.carmine-gorga.us</U></U></A></FONT>. </div> <bR> <bR> <div>      1.   <I>Present positions</I></div> <div> <B>     President</B>, Polis-tics, Inc., 1973- (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.polis-tics.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.polis-tics.com"><U><U>www.polis-tics.com</U></U></A></FONT>)</div> <div> <B>     Executive Director</B>, Gloucester Community Development Corporation, 1999-      (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.gloucestercdc.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gloucestercdc.org"><U><U>www.gloucestercdc.org</U></U></A></FONT>)</div> <div> <B>     President</B>, Concordians.org Inc., 2003- a US Treasury Department certified      Community Development Entity (CDE), (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.concordians.ortg" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.concordians.ortg"><U><U>www.concordians.org</U></U></A></FONT>)</div> <bR> <div>      2.   <I>Education</I> </div> <div> <B>     Maturitá Classica, </B>Liceo Sannazzaro, Naples, Italy, 1955.</div> <div>           <B>Ph.D. in Political Science, </B>University of Naples, Italy, 1959.</div> <div> <B>          Diploma in International Relations, </B>Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins,1961.</div> <div>             <B>M.A. in International Relations</B>, Johns Hopkins' SAIS, Washington, D.C. 1962.</div> <bR> <div> 3.   <I>Academic Honors</I></div> <div> <I>     </I>A Council of Europe scholarship for his dissertation on the political thought of Louis D. Brandeis </div> <div>      A Fulbright scholarship</div> <div>           Tuition awards from the Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Relations (SAIS) both at the Bologna Center and in Washington, DC</div> <bR> <div>      4.   <I>Selected Accomplishments in Theory (with the help of a few outstanding minds)</I></div> <div> <I>          </I></div> <div> <I>          </I>Created Concordian economics, the first major installment of which has been published in <I>The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-                                                                                                                   </I></div> <div>           <I>N</I><I>ewtonian </I><I>Picture</I> (2002)</div> <div>           Published a foundational article in <I>The Journal of Markets and Morality</I>, Spring 999, on the theory of economic justice</div> <div>           Working on relationalism</div> <bR> <div>           </div> <div>           <I>Selected Accomplishments in Practice (with the help of many outstanding people)</I></div> <div>           </div> <div>           Preserved the public transportation system on Cape Ann</div> <div>           Created Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association</div> <div>           Introduced fresh seafood into the national supermarkets     </div> <div>      </div> <div> <I>     </I></div> <div> <I>     </I>5. <I>  Selected Publications</I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >      </FONT>      "Not Simply a National Fund, but a Stabilization and Development Fund”, <I>Mondo Economico</I>, April 1964, 19 (14) 14-16.</div> <div>            "The Importance of the U.S. Fishing Industry: Some Enlightening Statistics" (with Louis J. Ronsivalli),<I> Seafood America,</I> July/August 1981, 1 (7)     </div> <div>             26-7, 34.</div> <div>             "The Revised Keynes' Model" (an Abstract), <I>Atlantic Economic Journal,</I> Sept. 1982, 10 (3) 52.  </div> <bR> <div>            "The Productivity Standard: A True Golden Standard” (with Norman G. Kurland),<I> in </I>Dawn M. Kurland (ed.), Every Worker an Owner: <I>A </I></div> <div>            <I> Revolutionary Free Enterprise Challenge to Marxism,</I> Washington, D.C.: Center for Economic and Social Justice, 1987, pp. 83-86.</div> <div>            "Bold New Directions in Politics and Economics”, <I>The Human Economy Newsletter</I>, March 1991, 12 (1) 3-6, 12.</div> <div>            <I>"</I>Four Economic Rights:<I> </I>Social Renewal Through Economic Justice for All”, <I>Social Justice Review, </I>January-February 1994, 85 (1-2) 3-6. .</div> <div>             "Fisheries Renewal: A Renewal of the Soul of Business" (with Stuart B. Weeks), <I>The Catholic Social Science Review</I>, Vol. II, 1997, pp. 145-</div> <div>             161.</div> <div>             "Toward the Definition of Economic Rights”, <I>The Journal of Markets and Morality</I>, Spring 1999, II (1) 88-101. </div> <bR> <div>            <I>Quality Assurance of Seafood </I>(with Louis J. Ronsivalli), New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988.</div> <div> <I>     The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture</I>, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Lanham, MD and Oxford: </FONT>University Press of America, 2002.</div> <div>      </div> <div>      </div> <div>      6.   <I>Public service</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>          </I>Executive director of Gloucester Community Development Corporation</div> <bR> <div>      </div> <div>      7.  <I>Date of Birth</I></div> <bR> <div>      December 8, 1935</div> <bR> <div>       </div> <div>       8.   <I>Place of Birth</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>          </I>Roccadaspide (Salerno), Italy</div> <bR> <bR> <div>       9.   <I>Marital status</I></div> <bR> <div>           Married, one son.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>