INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 780 Amsterdam, June 21st, 2019 STRAWMAN OR STEELMAN? - The Wilberian Evolution Controversy - FRANK VISSER In his three-part, 32 page series of essays "Real Integral vs. Fake Integral, Transcending-Yet-Including the Knowledge of Science", Brad Reynolds accused me of presenting a weak or strawman version of Wilber's argument concerning evolution. The interesting thing is, however, that apparently two authors who have been a lifelong student of Integral Theory and who have even written books about Ken Wilber can disagree about what Wilber's actual position regarding this important topic of evolution is. Isn't that obvious from his extensive literature, then? Well, apparently not! That Wilber refuses to clarify his position doesn't really help in dispelling this fundamental unclarity. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser142.html JUSTICE, EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS, AND SPIRIT - JOE CORBETT Plato talks about Justice as an interobjective relation of the parts to the whole within society and the self. Whether it is between different classes in a society or between the different aspects and developmental stages of the self, Justice is an actually existing relation of functional fit between the parts of a system, not an abstract ideal or intersubjective consensus.[1] It is a negotiated and strategically positioned balance of forces that must be in constant play for a (social/self) system to maintain a dynamic equilibrium. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett63.html