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Singularity

Philosophical Treatise

Written as a counter-argument to The Duality of Metaphysics by a Galencia scholar named Jan Crito, Singularity became one the first non-Khadric works to be printed on their famous presses. The printing impoverished both himself and his in-laws - who's meager estate he had put up as collateral without his father-in-law's permission. Tossed out by his wife, the story is told that a Khadric envoy found him drinking away his last coppers in Geyla two years later. The envoy ad with him a chest of gold - proceeds from the sales of the book in New Kharolin and Pash-ti where it had become wildly popular.
 
The treatise details Crito's beliefs that the body and mind are one, inseparable entity. Only together did they make up the essential nature of a being. Filled with stories his thought experiments on the subject, the work told in plain words what many Kharda and Flind had felt for centuries in their souls. It even included several practical meditations that one could use to center the mind within the body. Many of these are part of Flind education to this day.
 
Many scholars today believe that Crito's work was strongly influenced by tales his grandfather told of his own adventures in the Flietch-ta Empire with his friend, Yarmin Knowlchuck. Several have even criticized the work as a mere re-packing of Flind ideas brought back by Knowlchuck from his own journeys east. Others, Flind included, find that Crito's unique distillation of these ideals has led them to new understanding and peace with the multiverse.
Type
Text, Philosophical
Authoring Date
377 BC
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