Let me quote from Page xxi of his book, 12 RULES FOR LIFE AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS: "Being is also, finally, something that is brought into existence by action, so its nature is an indeterminate degree of consequence of our decisions and choices--something shaped by our hypothetically free will. Construe in this manner, Being is (1) not something easily and directly reducible to the material and objective and (2) something that most definitely requires its own term, as Heidegger labor for decades to indicate."
My response: Being is for sure influenced, even altered by our movements, our decisions, our actions, but Being is also much larger than any attempt to alter it by any human. Being is infinite in many ways, so what we do is significant, but it is not the whole story about Being.
Can Being be reduced to the material and the objective? My moderate answer is that it can and it cannot. Epistemologically, we can know the external world and its objective, those physical, do define for us what material reality is; simultaneously, we cannot know the external world, we only know the subjective world insider our heads.
If Jordan declares that Being is not reducible to the material and objective, then it must be Absolute Mind and spiritual energy and God exist as parts of Being.
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