Introduction; 1: The End of the Old Ontology; 2: The Categories of Being; 3: A New Concept of Reality; 4: The New Ontology and the New Anthropology; 5: The Stratified Structures of the World; 6: Old Mistakes and New Critique; 7: Modification of the Fundamental Categories; 8: The Strata Laws of the Real World; 9: Dependence and Autonomy in the Hierarchy of Strata; 10: Objections and Prospects; 11: The Stratification of the Human Being; 12: Determination and Freedom; 13: A New Approach to the Problem of Knowledge