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The book “The Thacentrism – Opening Minds” is a work of sophisticated conceptual rigor and profound philosophical ambition. It proposes a philosophical system in which absolutely everything has a single causal principle. It demonstrates the viability of this proposal in a simple, highly didactic, and illustrative way, backed by countless pieces of evidence that relate this principle to the logic, intelligibility, and order of reality. Utilizing a modern and very powerful metaphor to explain how this principle manifests in reality. It shows how this principle could act to create reality and what the ultimate purpose of this creation would be. It achieves this by presenting a very realistic and competent analysis and comparison that involves all components of reality. It further offers a practical guide for the reader to perceive what lies behind their life and encourages them to write their own destiny with this in mind. Reading “The Thacentrism – Opening Minds” is recommended for anyone who wishes to think outside the box and a better world for everyone too.

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1 Introduction

Humanistic development is extremely slow when compared to technological development. However, humanistic development is responsible for the refinement of human qualities. This imbalance between technological and humanistic development has created a very complicated situation. Humanity produces and uses highly sophisticated things. Nevertheless, human beings continue to assault one another over extremely trivial motives, as if they were still in the stone age.

The humanistic underdevelopment favors the disregard for the manifestation of individuality due to divergent opinions and promotes the emergence of hostilities such as: wars, terrorist attacks, murders, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, robbery, beatings, exploitation, discrimination, rape, bullying, and so on.

Human beings have already fought two world wars and many other regional conflicts. Wars are the most nefarious type of hostility that exists. They have killed, wounded, and mutilated millions of people worldwide. However, terrorist attacks are almost as nefarious as wars. They are very frequent and have also caused an enormous number of casualties. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in the United States alone killed almost three thousand people and injured many others.

This bleak scenario could worsen even further, as technology has evolved so much that some nations possess enough military power to destroy the entire world.

Attacks can occur within the same nation or between distinct peoples. However, facts show that the majority of aggressions occur within the same nation. This happens because within any nation, there is an enormous amount of divergence and people who do not know how to handle their feelings properly. Furthermore, there are also those people who prefer to vent their feelings rather than being reasonable.

This picture seems pessimistic, but there are many people who could improve their way of thinking and acting after some clarification. If this clarification is massive and constant, it might trigger a process of cultural development. Cultural development is the safest and most effective way to reduce hostilities both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Cultural development and evolution cause some causes of divergence to become very trivial and contribute to the reduction of possibilities for hostility. For example, in the past, women were not allowed to work in many professions because they were considered masculine. However, cultural evolution has greatly reduced this prejudice and discrimination. Nowadays, there are women in almost all professions. Nevertheless, this problem still persists in the most culturally backward societies.

Facts show that aggressions and tolerance toward aggressors decrease as a people's culture evolves. This relationship demonstrates that cultural development and evolution are prerequisites for humanistic evolution. In other words, cultural development and evolution are essential for making people and societies more enlightened, amicable, and just. Human beings need cultural development and evolution to free themselves from the mindset that so hinders the achievement of well-being and peace.

The evolution of the human mindset requires the expansion of knowledge and the review of beliefs and values. This is not easy, as it has the knowledge of truth as a prerequisite. Humanity has been searching for the truth for millennia. Many thinkers have spent their lives trying to discover a method that would make it possible to identify the truth. Some of these methods became very famous. For example: maieutics and dialectics. However, none of them proved effective in achieving their objective. The scientific method has its limitations but is still the best way to attempt to identify the truth.

The impossibility of identifying the truth under all circumstances generated the following question: How to convince someone to change their way of thinking without being able to demonstrate to them what the truth is? This is particularly difficult because human beings are averse to change. The best way to overcome this problem seems to be through information that encourages human beings to be more inquisitive. This is exactly the proposal of the book “The Thacentrism.” Incidentally, that is why its subtitle is “Opening Minds.”

The book "The Thacentrism" presents a new view of reality, but its essence is already known to everyone. However, this is the first time it has been analyzed so structurally and deeply. The set of arguments that could substantiate the presentation of what thacentrism is practically infinite. Absolutely everything imaginable could be part of it. For this reason, this work will attempt to demonstrate this by showing that absolutely everything is related to thacentrism.

The first step to meet the creation of such expectation is to adequately conceptualize what thacentrism is. However, this requires establishing a convention that will be very important for the understanding of thacentrism. The words "being," "thing," and their respective plurals will never be used as synonyms in this work, as this could cause great confusion. The word "being" (when a noun) will be used only to designate that which is a product of nature. The word "thing" will be used only to designate that whose origin cannot be attributed to nature. The necessity of these distinctions will become obvious as the explanations regarding thacentrism are introduced.

2 Conceptualization of Thacentrism...

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