Sustenesis Dialogues

A collection for dialogue-based articles, interviews, exchanges, and discussions connected to Sustenesis Theory.

This directory is reserved for articles that develop Sustenesis Theory through dialogue, interview, exchange, response, and discussion.

Philosophical essays remain in the essays directory, while applied case studies remain in the applications directory.

Article Directory

Why Let Fifty Western Philosophers Enter Dialogue with Sustenesis Theory
Preface to the Sustenesis Dialogues series on fifty Western philosophers. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Thales and Sustenesis Theory Dialogue
A dialogue on Thales, the primary principle of all things, and Sustenesis Theory. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Pythagoras and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on number, structural relations, and why mathematics expresses maintained order rather than creating existence. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Heraclitus and Sustenesis Theory Dialogue
A dialogue on change, structural continuity, and why flux is the field in which Sustenesis occurs. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Parmenides and Sustenesis Theory Dialogue
A dialogue on being, continuity, and why existence is the ability to continue holding through change. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Empedocles and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on the four roots, Love and Strife, and the maintenance of difference through relational forces. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Anaxagoras and Sustenesis Theory Dialogue
A dialogue on Nous, particles, order, and directional conditions within maintained structures. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Democritus and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on atoms, the void, reductionism, and why low-level units become existence only through maintained structures. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Socrates and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on self-knowledge, virtue, examination, and how the self is maintained under reflective pressure. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Plato and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Forms, participation, and why Ideas can be reinterpreted as limit-expressions of structural stability. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Aristotle and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on substance, form, matter, the four causes, and the dynamic maintenance of concrete beings. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Epicurus and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on pleasure, desire, death, friendship, and the low-disturbance maintenance of life. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Zeno of Citium and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Stoic nature, fate, virtue, and active structural maintenance under constraint. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Plotinus and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on The One, emanation, unity, and the limit of structural integration. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Augustine and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on time, memory, the present, expectation, and the temporal maintenance of the self. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Boethius and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on fate, providence, fortune, and local structures under whole-level constraint. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Anselm and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on the ontological argument, God, logic, and the boundary-thought of the highest condition of maintenance. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Thomas Aquinas and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Thomas Aquinas and the Sustenesis claim that Nature, reason, and grace are not three floors, but coordinated levels of Sustenesis. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
William of Ockham and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on William of Ockham and the Sustenesis claim that Simplicity does not eliminate structure; it rejects unnecessary ontological burden. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Niccolò Machiavelli and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Niccolò Machiavelli and the Sustenesis claim that Politics is not a projection of moral wishes, but a technique of maintaining power structures. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Francis Bacon and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Francis Bacon and the Sustenesis claim that Knowledge is not passive contemplation, but a structural capacity to transform the world. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Thomas Hobbes and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Thomas Hobbes and the Sustenesis claim that The state is not a result of natural benevolence, but an order maintained by fear and contract. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
René Descartes and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on René Descartes and the Sustenesis claim that The subject is not a pure point of thought, but a maintained self-structure. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Baruch Spinoza and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Baruch Spinoza and the Sustenesis claim that Freedom is not escape from necessity, but the ability to understand and maintain one’s structure. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
John Locke and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on John Locke and the Sustenesis claim that Experience is not a mark on a blank slate, but a knowledge-structure maintained by subject and world. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the Sustenesis claim that Monads are not sealed little substances, but maintained points of structural perspective. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
George Berkeley and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on George Berkeley and the Sustenesis claim that To be perceived is not the whole of existence; existence requires perception and worldly constraint together. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
David Hume and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on David Hume and the Sustenesis claim that The self is not a fixed substance, but a bundle of experience maintained as continuity. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Sustenesis claim that The natural human being is not a return to primitivism, but a question about how social structures damage the person. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Immanuel Kant and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Immanuel Kant and the Sustenesis claim that Experience is not passive reception of the world, but the joint formation of subject-structure and worldly material. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Johann Gottlieb Fichte and the Sustenesis claim that The I is not an empty starting point, but an action-structure formed through resistance. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Friedrich Schelling and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Friedrich Schelling and the Sustenesis claim that Nature is not dead background, but the pre-structure through which spirit emerges. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
G. W. F. Hegel and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on G. W. F. Hegel and the Sustenesis claim that History is not the automatic victory of concept, but structural reorganization through conflict. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Arthur Schopenhauer and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Arthur Schopenhauer and the Sustenesis claim that Will is not the world’s substance, but a blind drive within life-structure. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Søren Kierkegaard and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Søren Kierkegaard and the Sustenesis claim that The individual is not a place in a system, but an existence maintained through anxiety and choice. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Karl Marx and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Karl Marx and the Sustenesis claim that Consciousness is not floating idea, but a social structure formed within relations of production. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
John Stuart Mill and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on John Stuart Mill and the Sustenesis claim that Liberty is not isolated arbitrariness, but a maintainable boundary between individual development and social constraint. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Nietzsche and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Nietzsche and the Sustenesis claim that Value Is Not an External Command, but the Directionality of Life-Structure. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Wittgenstein and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Wittgenstein and the Sustenesis claim that Meaning Is Not a Shadow Behind Words, but a Maintained Relation in Use. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Heidegger and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Heidegger and the Sustenesis claim that Being Is Not an Object, but What Is Disclosed and Maintained in a World. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Sartre and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Sartre and the Sustenesis claim that Freedom Is Not Absence of Constraint, but the Reorganization of the Self Within Constraint. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Merleau-Ponty and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Merleau-Ponty and the Sustenesis claim that The Body Is Not a Tool of Consciousness, but the Sustenetic Center of World-Relation. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Rorty and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Rorty and the Sustenesis claim that Truth Is Not a Mirror, but a Working Claim Maintained in Shared Practice. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Habermas and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Habermas and the Sustenesis claim that Reason Is Not the Power of an Isolated Subject, but the Maintenance of Communicative Structure. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Foucault and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Foucault and the Sustenesis claim that The Subject Is Not a Transcendental Center, but a Maintained Result of Power-Knowledge Structures. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Derrida and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Derrida and the Sustenesis claim that Meaning Is Not Closed Presence, but Deferred Maintenance Within Chains of Difference. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Bourdieu and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Bourdieu and the Sustenesis claim that Social Order Is Not Decided by Ideas Alone, but Maintained Through Field and Habitus. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Lacan and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Lacan and the Sustenesis claim that The Ego Is Not Master, but a Rift Maintained Within the Symbolic Structure. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Deleuze and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Deleuze and the Sustenesis claim that Structure Is Not a Closed Order, but a Temporary Stability of Difference and Becoming. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Badiou and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Badiou and the Sustenesis claim that The Event Is Not an Appendix to Order, but a New Sustenesis After Structural Rupture. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.
Nicolai Hartmann and Sustenesis Theory
A dialogue on Nicolai Hartmann and the Sustenesis claim that Reality Is Not a Single Plane, but the Maintenance of Layered Structures. Geoffrey Chen, 2026.6.12.

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