Van: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Verzonden: dinsdag 29 december 2009 16:44 Aan: f.visser3@chello.nl Onderwerp: [personal] Integral Ethics INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 306 Amsterdam, December 29th, 2009 AN EXPANSION TO INTEGRAL ETHICS - Henry Augustine In “Integral Life Practice,” we are briefly informed as to what “Integral ethics” entails. I believe that this definition of Integral ethics is quite necessary but is also insufficient. We can grasp only the gist of the logical structure outlining Integral ethics – but we are not able to sink our intellectual teeth into the more specific and linear relations concerning what morality is, how we should act, and why we should do so, as according to Integral. We are essentially told that Integral ethics involves a healthy combination of masculine and feminine approaches to choice and action. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/augustine15.html OBAMA AND CULT DANGERS - Elliot Benjamin In my previous article I argued that Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan was by no means a sudden and inexplicable change of perspective for him, but rather was highly consistent with what he had written in his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope (Obama, 2006), and with what was written in the Obama for America's 2008 book Change We Can Believe In (Obama for America, 2008). However, in one of my previous Obama articles I made the following remark: “It is debatable how much Obama manipulated the country, waiting to promote his 'real' views about using military force to fight terrorists for the optimal time in his bid to prove his military strength in battling McCain for the presidency.” (Benjamin, 2009a, p. 2). Keeping this remark in mind, in my present essay I would like to approach my growing disillusionment and disappointment with Obama in another context. I would like to discuss Obama in the context of “cult dangers,” in a somewhat similar manner in which I have written about the cult dangers of various modern religious/spiritual groups (Benjamin, 2005a, 2005b, 2006, 2007, 2008). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/benjamin21.html A ADDTHIS button has been placed at the top-left of the homepage, so you can send this site to your social neworks friends easily. If you know other people interested in this Integral World Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php