The last chapter of Volume One of Principia Ontologia—titled “The Future of Continental Philosophy and the Tradition’s Most Post-Metaphysically Powerful Enterprise”—is nothing short of a perfect description of authentically post-postmodern, deepened, phenomenologically, structurally, and genealogically competent fundamental ontological inquiry. This is, of course, Principia Ontologia. The Volume One of which—an 800-page treatise that charts the previously uncharted philosophical territory—marks the advent of the most post-metaphysically powerful Continental enterprise in the history of Western intellectual tradition. Namely, the first ever “all-evolutionary destining, all-domain,” i.e.,—to use Ken Wilber’s beautiful expression—the first ever “all-quadrant, all-level” Continental enterprise. Capable of accomplishing what its brilliant predecessors, the Heideggerian project and Derridean deconstruction, wanted to but couldn’t: concretely answer the all-important question of Being.
It goes without saying that such tremendous post-metaphysical power of Principia Ontologia aside from arising out of the enterprise’s undeniable bravery, independence of thought, and tremendous comprehensiveness, also stems from the project’s meticulous “authentic retrieval,” i.e., “transcendence and inclusion” of groundbreaking Wilberian Integral Meta-Theory. The “AQAL IOS System” of which Principia Ontologia scrupulously utilizes—many times explicitly, often implicitly—in its every deconstructive maneuver, reconstructive effort, and, by the same token, each step on an infrequently trodden road of the quest concerning Being. Accordingly, Principia Ontologia actualizes in action the tremendous philosophical power of the pioneering American philosopher’s invaluable body of work. Bringing to the fore how—as the project goes out of its way to underscore—such courageous exploration of previously unexplored philosophical territory, with its revolutionary breakthroughs, magnificent advancements, and novel acumens, is the single best way Principia Ontologia can “authentically repay” its brilliant predecessors—ranging from Husserl to Heidegger to Habermas to Derrida to Wilber—because, at the end of the day, Friedrich Nietzsche couldn’t have been more spot-on when accentuating that, “One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil,” not to mention Leonardo da Vinci, who in his notebook once wrote, “Poor is the apprentice who does not surpass his Master.”
