The Missing Bridge
From Life-Value Onto-Axiology to a Causal Science of Living CoherenceBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length1h 4m
About this audiobook
How do the rules that organize society become conditions of health, harm, repair and flourishing? In The Missing Bridge, Bichara Sahely develops an accessible extension of John McMurtry’s Life-Value Onto-Axiology. Moving between medicine, housing, finance and ecology, he traces how institutions shape access to life’s necessities, exposure to harm, the burdens we carry and the reserves that help us recover. This Listener’s Edition translates diagrams and tables into a continuous narrative, explaining seven distinctions for clearer thinking and responsible action. It explores how to stabilize what is threatened, repair what is damaged and enlarge life’s possibilities — without confusing good intentions with good outcomes. Rather than offering a final theory, it proposes a method open to evidence, challenge and revision: making our institutions answerable to life.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Philosophy
Length1 hr 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 5, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Listener's Note
2Listening Orientation
3A simple question beneath many complicated problems
41. The life-value compass
52. Why a compass still needs a causal bridge
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63. The 2017 trilogy: three parts of one causal story
74. The bridge in five questions: Listening synthesis: the master diagram in words
8Listening synthesis: the master diagram in words
95. The distinctions that make the bridge usable
10Begin with the living unity and its setting
11Separate needs from satisfiers and preferences
12Separate load, capacity, and margin
13Separate state from trajectory and phase
14Separate event, meaning, mechanism, and value
15Separate intention from function and outcome
16Look beyond local success to nested and future consequences
17Listening synthesis: distinguish before connecting
18From distinctions to viability
196. From treating damage to changing the conditions that produce it
207. Pathogenic human interference - without calling everything a pathogen
218. Salutogenesis - producing the conditions of health
229. Reading resilience through capacity, margin, and repair
2310. Stabilize, repair, then develop
2411. How the framework protects itself from becoming an ideology
25How would we know our explanation was wrong?
26Listening synthesis: the minimum discipline of a bridge claim
27Conclusion: making our institutions answerable to life
28Listener's Guide: the argument in one pass
29Scholarly and production note
30About the author
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