for existential inquiry
Welcome to Project IOAL—intended to become a participatory Project adopting a philosophical approach to the humanities, the guiding question of which is, of course, What does it mean to be human? To keep that question open and alive is to engage in existential inquiry, and it is that to which this Project is committed.
In an effort to provide a suitable mode of discourse for conducting the inquiry, this Project posits an original framework of 26 perennial questions interrelationally-arranged, where each question is kept open by placing it in dialogue with all the others. (The images to the right diagram two views of the framework's 3D relational logic in its full, fractal form.)
The goal in keeping the questions open and alive is one of transformation—of oneself and, together with others, our world. Project participants are intended to contribute to the Project by engaging in a process akin to the gameplay Hermann Hesse describes in his novel The Glass Bead Game.
Current (2026) Project status: What follows is presented as a work in progress aimed mainly at developing an Intro to Philosophy course. The presentation begins with a slide-show introducing the Project's inherent visual language system. If any of this interests you, please reach out. I'd love to hear from you. Find my email at the bottom of each page.