Middao

Middao: Discovering the Triadic World (Volume I)

Are you trapped in either-or thinking?
Are you puzzled by these questions: Why can science explain the universe but fails to explain war, faith, and human nature?
Why, despite possessing unprecedented knowledge, do we sink deeper into individual anxiety and civilizational crises?
It is because we have been trying to navigate a three-dimensional world with a two-dimensional map.

The vast majority of mainstream worldviews-whether materialism, idealism, scientific reductionism, or social constructivism-are trapped in a fundamental pitfall: they grasp only a fragment of the world yet claim to hold the entire truth.
- Some explain everything with "matter" but cannot account for the reality of love and pain.
- Some explain everything with "spirit" but cannot explain the objectivity of natural laws.
- Science can describe galaxies and genes but remains silent on values, war, and the rise and fall of civilizations.
- Postmodernism claims "everything is a narrative" but fails to explain why ecological crises occur in reality.

The world is far richer, more dimensional, and more complete than we imagine.

Volume I of Middao proposes a fundamental philosophical breakthrough:
The world is not monistic or dualistic-it is "triadic":

1. The Objective World (matter, energy, natural laws)
2. The Subjective World (consciousness, experience, values, meaning)
3. The Social World (institutions, civilization, technological systems)

These are not merely three separate categories but, like life itself-"the Generative Union of Yin-Yang brings forth all things."
Laws, nations, economies, languages... these forces that truly shape our lives are neither purely material nor purely spiritual but a third realm that emerges from their interaction. Traditional philosophy has debated for millennia yet almost entirely overlooked it.

This book will guide you through a "dimensional upgrade" of cognition:
- Part I: Systematically constructing the "Middao" philosophical system-including philosophical diagrams, ontology, constitutive theory, generative theory, teleology, epistemology, and methodology-provides a new set of tools for understanding the three-dimensional world.
- Part II: Using these tools to "see clearly" the world-the laws of the objective world, the structure of the subjective world, the nature of the social world... and, most importantly, how these three realms intertwine and operate.

It is a more complete map of the world-a unified framework capable of explaining simultaneously:
- Natural laws and spiritual experiences
- Economic principles and the rise and fall of civilizations
- Individual dilemmas and systemic conflicts

If you are unsatisfied with fragmented answers,
If you believe true wisdom lies in "seeing the whole,"
If you are ready for a complete upgrade of your thinking operating system-

Then, welcome to open this book.
Welcome to a triadic world that has long remained hidden.