The Dekadic Self is a fifth term of the human being harmonizing its four elements of soul, spirit, mind and body. To begin with, the organic whole of Commonsense would draw upon goodness, wisdom, truth, beauty and justice which would all culminate into the event of the individual achieving the ultimate goal of happiness. But what is Cyberspace? It is a marriage of logical space to the empirical space of sensory experience, a joining of the inner with the outer -- and not, mind you, that leap into the silent void which was all that Nietzsche knew as a solution to his physical and...

The philosophical work of Joseph F. Conte traces a line from Plato's Republic, through Cicero's De Republica to Augustine's De Civitate Dei to Dante's De Monarchia to More's Utopia: the vision of universal empire, at once a natural and supernatural government of the world. He wants to fight for God's cause and produce a viable postmodern theodicy which defends the supreme happiness, goodness, wisdom, truth, beauty and justice of the Cosmic Author.