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Roy Bhaskar's metaReality and the Problems of Spirituality
In his book meta-Reality (2002), Roy Bhaskar, the originator of the intellectual movement of critical realism, terms 'metaReality' as a philosophical theory of 'non-duality' which cannot be enclosed in the merely dualistic dimension of reality. I understand that his metaReality is an outcome of the overcoming of the existing western philosophy: dualism and its derivative problems. Tracing Bhaskar's intellectual trajectory from critical realism to metaReality, I present how he establishes his meta-philosophical work on reality against anthropocentric dualism prevalent in human thoughts. As Bhaskar's original critical realism consistently keeps the anti-anthropocentric driving force, the spiritual transformation of metaReality is also on the same line. Furthermore, I insist that Bhaskar's conviction that anti-anthropocentric turn from the previous western philosophy can resolve all the problems he indicated in his previous works is perfectly justified and completed in metaReality. As Bhaskar indicates in his book meta-Reality, the realization of the possibility of non-duality in this dual world, which is dominated by dualism, is accomplished when we awaken to the transcendentally real self, and this awakening is necessitated by 'shedding our sense of ego, our sense of separateness from things in the world, together with all other illusory and heteronomous sources of determinism.' In this presentation, I argue that the philosophical search for reality is accomplished when it is incorporated with eastern spirituality of self-realization.
