... opti-mism either, of course; for the darkening of the world, the fl ight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the reduc-tion of human beings into a mass, the hatred and mistrust of everything ... Ontology, or the science of being, on the other hand, demands a fundamental shift of view: From entities to being.16For example, botany relies on the ontological understanding of the vegetable ... doorknobs, and the like, and those manipulations are effected by means of the body.”7 While acknowledging the merits of these criticisms, the goal of this book is to address the question of why...