| This dissertation deals with Roy Bhaskar's philosophical evolution from critical realism, via dialectical critical realism, to meta-Reality. I aim to underscore the consistent aspects in the whole works that he has hitherto established. Even though Bhaskar's original theory at the stage of critical realism has been transformed through dialectical and spiritual interventions, there is a consistently existing drive for his philosophical trajectory, and I argue that this drive is his critical view against anthropism prevalent in western philosophy. In the first chapter of the dissertation, I explore his realist philosophy of science and social science, while elaborating on how he reveals human-independent foundation of reality, which he calls the 'structured intransitive' and the 'transformational model of social activity' (analyzing scientific and social activity respectively). In the second chapter, I examine how Bhaskar establishes his dialectic of critical realism sublating positivity inherited in Hegelian dialectic. I emphasize that Bhaskar's attack on the closure of the dialectic of positivity enables the original positions in critical realism preserved in his dialectical critical realism. The third chapter examines Bhaskar's recent turn toward the problem of spirituality. He claims that the underlying non-dual core of reality plays a crucial role when we overcome the irrealistic forms of western philosophy. I conclude that his anti-anthropic drive is still sustained, and more flourished, at this stage in the meta-philosophical form of the 'constellational identification of dualism, duality and non-duality.'... |
