Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Approach -- Chapter 1 Just Business -- Attitudes -- Origins -- Survival -- Just Business -- Chapter 2 Natural Momentum -- Relations -- Business Relations -- Memories -- The Best of Times -- Chapter 3 Accounting Constructions -- Day 1 - Representations -- Day 2 - Order -- Day 3 - Knowledge -- Departing -- Chapter 4 Open Societies -- Place of Departure -- Things to Know -- Flight KL0897: Towards an Economic Ecology -- Beijing: Opening Societies -- Science in Ancient China -- Flight KL0898: Openness & Death -- PART II: Modern Times -- Chapter 5 Passive Nature -- A Cold Start -- Working Paper: Passive Nature in European Thought -- God's Agency -- Rational Human Agency -- Chapter 6 Modern Knowledge -- The Mystery of Reality -- After Thoughts -- Solving Mysteries -- Mystery Solving in Europe -- Notes on Scienti.c Realism in European Thought & Civilisation -- Roy Bhaskar, British Philosopher Born 1944 -- The Modern Episteme -- Point One: Epistemic Change from Classical to Modern -- Point Two: Modern Origins -- Point Three: New Forms of Knowledge -- Point Four: A Philosophical Consequence of the Modern Episteme -- Point Five: No Strong Metaphysical Continuum in the Modern Episteme -- Point Six:The Modern Episteme's Two Schools of Philosophy -- Point Seven: Epistemological Man -- Point Eight: History -- Point Nine: Finitude -- Point Ten: Anthropologization -- The Process of Freedom -- Chapter 7 Square-Peg Business -- An Everyday Enormity -- The Religious Business -- Banker Business -- The Rationalising Business -- Thomas Hobbes -- John Locke -- David Hume -- The Liberty Business -- The Independent Organic Business -- Adam Smith -- Square-Peg Business -- Consequences of Square-Peg Business -- PART III: Primal Knowledge -- Chapter 8 Breaking Free -- Chongming Island -- Evidence for a New Episteme.

First File: Biological Evolution -- Second File: Ecology -- Third File: Diversity -- Fourth File: Entropy -- Fifth File: Chaos Theory -- Sixth File: Dissipative Systems -- Seventh File: Bifurcation and Autopoiesis -- Eight File: Complexity -- Ninth File: Active Nature -- Chapter 9 The Primal Episteme -- Aristotle's Spring -- All Under Heaven -- Surface Sedimentation -- A Geological Find -- Unearthing a Buried Process: Genesis -- Episteme Change -- Fragmented Origins -- Two Philosophical Schools -- Epistemological Man -- Finitude -- The Emerging Episteme -- Understanding the Primal Episteme -- Primal Episteme Properties -- Primal Episteme Analyses -- For Foucault -- Chapter 10 Primal Wisdom -- Primal Wisdom I: Attitude -- Primal Wisdom II: Self -- Primal Wisdom III: Unity of Knowledge -- Primal Wisdom IV: Ethics -- Primal Wisdom V: Education -- Chapter 11 Primal Business -- ''What have We Got?'' -- QC had Morality -- From China -- Grey Beard had Typologies -- The Older Boy had Diagrams -- Discussed on Suomenlinna: The Import -- ''What is Sustainable Development?'' -- Why Intrinsic Sustainable Development? -- Table Talk -- PART IV: Consequences -- Chapter 12 Resistance & Assistance -- Attitude -- Chinese Institutions -- Western Institutions -- World Institution -- References -- Index.