From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl]
Sent: maandag 1 januari 2007 23:07
To: f.visser3@chello.nl
Subject: [personal] Integral Ethics

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Newsletter Nr. 177
Amsterdam, January 1, 2007



WILBER WATCH BLOG: "2006: WHAT A YEAR!"
http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/


INTEGRAL ETHICS - Alan Kazlev

"Integral morality can be defined as the application of integral thought to morality and 
ethics. This determines the way one acts in the world towards other sentient beings (and 
even towards nonsentient matter). I see three approaches here, which can be coinsidered as 
complementary: the epistemological (morality resulting from empathic understanding of the 
other), metaphysical (the synergetic dynamics of the yin and yang pole), and activist 
(animal liberation, deep ecology, going beyond ethnocentric and anthropocentric biases). 

The first of these is inspired by participatory thinker John Heron (who along with Richard 
Tarnas, Jorge Ferrer and other participatory thinkers represents a very different form of 
Integral than the Wilberian and post-Wilberian), the second by Edward Haskell (Unified Science), 
and the last by people like Peter Singer and the Animal Liberation movement, and by the 
environmental and alternative movement in general."

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/kazlev9.html


SOME NOTES ON PERSONALISM - Frank Visser

"This essay freely explores some assumptions behind the four quadrant model and the three 
personal pronouns common to language, that might shape our perception and condition our actions. 

As the final thought of this year, looking back on the tumultous year of 2006, one wonders 
how much of Wilber's behaviour towards his critics has been shaped by the four quadrant 
model (as summarized by I, We and It) -- so everything not included in the I and the We 
can be looked at with contempt -- where a more personalistic approach would have taught 
us that, first and foremost, we're all persons, entitled to respect, even if we refuse 
to speak to eachother -- with widely different opinions, for sure, but in the end connected 
in our search for truth."

Read more:
http://www.integralworld.net/visser17.html



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