This 4-page guide offers a short list of 15 points for those asking, in terms of William James, about the “cash value” of the philosophy of orientation. Distinguishing between “observations” and “conclusions,” this text specifies the practical consequences of the philosophy for our everyday life.

For “readers in a hurry,” this 20-page guide is a summary of the main ideas of the philosophy of orientation. Topics addressed are how the philosophy of orientation is “a realistic philosophy for our current time”; the “general structure of orientation”; the “consequences for mutual orientation”; the “consequences for metaphysics and politics”; and “initiation and continuation of the philosophy of orientation.”

The third guide provides an overview of how the philosophy of orientation has been prepared for in the history of Western philosophy. It tracks new situations that evoked alternative orientation decisions in philosophy with major impact on subsequent times with regard to philosophical self-reflection and self-criticism. Focusing on overall 25 such situations, the first edition, from October 2019, traces the first 18 sections, from the pre-Socratics, via the Middle Ages, and the early modern era, to William James and Nietzsche. The second edition, planned for 2020, includes chapters 19-25 that cover major alternative philosophical orientations in the 20th century, from Bergson, Whitehead, Frege, and Peirce, via Wittgenstein and Heidegger, to Rawls, Habermas, and Derrida.