This three-volume encyclopedia develops a unified life-grounded framework for diagnosing and resolving contemporary global crises. It argues that modern philosophy, economics, and political theory have abstracted from the material and biological conditions that make life possible, generating a ruling value syntax that privileges money-value accumulation over life-value realization.
Volume I reconstructs the foundational problem of value by distinguishing life-value from desire-value and market-value, and articulates a life-coherence principle as the missing criterion of moral philosophy.
Volume II extends this analysis into justice theory, rights discourse, and political economy, exposing the structural conflict between corporate person rights and embodied human life requirements. It develops the concept of the civil commons and re-grounds justice in universal life necessities.
Volume III situates these analyses within broader philosophical traditions and global life-support systems, confronting mechanistic reductionism, ecological collapse, and the fragmentation of knowledge.
Together, the three volumes offer a systematic onto-axiological framework for evaluating institutions, policies, and cultural paradigms according to whether they enable or disable the reproduction and flourishing of life-support systems across time.
