From: f.visser3@chello.nl
Sent: maandag 2 januari 2006 22:59
To: f.visser3@chello.nl
Subject: [personal] INTEGRALWORLD NEWSLETTER: Bald Ambition

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Newsletter Nr. 139.


Amsterdam, January 2 2006



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To all INTEGRALWORL.NET fans and visitors:

I have updated the Bibliography and the Criticism 
pages on this website. If you find a piece of 
online or offline material that fits on these pages,
let me know!
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Hi all,

A Happy New Year to all of you IW readers,

Integral philosophy is not only a system to be promoted 
and applied to our daily lives, but also a hypothesis 
to be validated and even challenged by specialists in 
various fields of science. In that area, not many 
initiatives have been taken. Since Jeff Meyerhoff offered 
his summary of "Bald Ambition" 
in the Summer of 2003 to IntegralWorld.net, the response 
has been predictable: 
sporadic comments, mostly cynical and dismissive, with 
an occasional appreciative comment. Apparently, "Green" 
pomo critiques of a "yellow" integral model can be put 
aside as irrelevant. 

I would like to break this habit, so engrained among 
Wilberites. Personally I found Meyerhoff's text refreshing 
and stimulating, especially for those who, like me, have 
internalized Wilber's way of seeing the world over the years. 
I may not go with all of his conclusions, but I approve the 
effort, in the spirit of a healthy dialectic. This is how 
the game of science and philosophy should be played. This 
could be the start of a true Wilber debate. 

Actually, what Jeff has done, and very few have even tried, 
is go back to Wilber's sources -- among these are: Piaget, 
Habermas, Charles Taylor, Jacques Derrida, and A.O. Lovejoy 
-- and offer his own interpretation of these. In good 
postmodern fashion, Jeff has attempted to "contextualize 
Ken", as the title of a review by Andy Smith of Jeff's 
book aptly read. 
He has also analysed Wilber's Story of the Kosmos with 
the help of Hayden White's model, to better spot any 
blind areas and hidden values in the system. To many 
Wilber fans, the integral philosophy is taken to be 
an objective description of reality. Meyerhoff argues 
there's more subjectivity here then we might care to know. 

Read more.... in the Reading Room, or click here:
http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff-ba-toc.html


Frank



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Frank Visser, Waterpoortweg 279, 1051 pv, Amsterdam 
Author of: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion SUNY 2003 
Read all about Ken Wilber : http://www.integralworld.net 
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