Van: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Verzonden: maandag 9 april 2012 21:30 Aan: f.visser3@upcmail.nl Onderwerp: [personal] Evolution's Arrows INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 396 Amsterdam, April 9th, 2012 EVOLUTION'S QUIVER - Direction, Cooperativity and Spirituality - ANDREW SMITH John Stewart's essay "Intentional Evolution" summarizes his view of evolution as a directional or progressive process, a notion he has discussed in more detail in his book Evolution's Arrow and in another essay, Evolutionary Manifesto. I am in substantial agreement with his work. The differences I do have with Stewart on evolution are mostly ones of emphasis or detail. Nevertheless, I want to discuss some of these differences here, to further clarify certain issues that I believe are essential to understanding how evolution progresses. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/smith37.html CONSTRUCTIVE AND DECONSTRUCTIVE POSTMODERNISM - EDWARD BERGE Gary Hampson (2007), in his Integral Review article “Integral re-view postmodernism,” discussed how Wilber distinguishes constructive and deconstructive postmodernism. The latter is a lower level of postformal development (green) while the former is a higher postformal development (teal and above). Aside from Hampson questioning the validity of deconstruction as relativistic he also questions this placement and suggests that perhaps they are both sides of the same postformal coin (level). Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/berge5.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html