My name is Anthony G. Rubino and I began this web-site on 08/04/97.

My plan is to present some important ideas which are the foundations of my own work and which I will add to over time. My first priority is content. The next priority is to make it as easy to navigate as possible while keeping it usable at all times.

As I "surf the web", there are too many things that I could comment on. Most websites and serious discussions that I have come across deal with the philosophy of others, not their own. They raise questions from various points of view, and give someone else's answers, or views, on some of the points raised. Few appear to make any attempt to answer them in any consistent manner.

That will not happen here because I have developed a very generalized approach to philosophy based upon a very fundamental proposition:

We think in terms of values.

I, of course, am not the first to recognize the importance of values. In fact, there appears to be some widespread acceptance that values are not only fundamental to man's behavior, but also to an understanding of that behavior.

Since thinking is that particular behavior with which a philosopher is concerned, and since thinking pervades all of man's present, past, or future endeavors, both real and imagined, it should be clear that understanding the nature of thinking would enable the development of the most general frames of reference that are possible as well as the most specific ones such as the synapses, and chemical changes that encode the thinking processes as they occur.

Although the fundamental nature of values has been acknowledged, no one to my knowledge has explored the proposition that we actually think in such terms. I on the other hand have begun with the idea of values as a starting point, and from that perspective, I can easily envision the possibility of the unification of all knowledge.

Understanding values as the common basis of all knowledge, and explicitly defining basic ideas and principles in such terms makes it easier to move from one frame of reference to another or from one point of view to another. One of the first general principles to emerge from such an understanding is that values change with changes in reference, and conversely, changes in values imply shifts of reference.

It is very difficult to work in a vacuum. Hopefully, I will be able to develop subsections to "discuss" the serious comments and issues that are raised. I will try - in the Socratic spirit - to get at what you really believe, so that we can develop a better understanding of any topics discussed. It is for this reason that your comments, no matter how critical, will be appreciated.

Please feel free to ask questions, and to express your ideas, by using the guestbook or e-mail.