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Newsletter Nr. 1.362
Amsterdam, June 15, 2025


Ken Wilber vs. Charles Darwin - Spiritual Assimilation and Scientific Misunderstanding - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Ken Wilber has long positioned himself as a synthesizer of knowledge, integrating Eastern mysticism, Western philosophy, and modern science into a sweeping vision of cosmic evolution. Yet when it comes to one of the foundational figures of modern science—Charles Darwin—Wilber performs a remarkable sleight of hand. He appropriates Darwin into his metaphysical system while simultaneously discarding Darwin's central discoveries. 

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Ken Wilber's Evolutionary Vision - A Category Of His Own? - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

While Ken Wilber draws heavily from the spiritual evolutionary narratives of German Idealism, history took a different turn. By the mid-19th century, idealist metaphysics was decisively displaced by materialist theories that transformed not just philosophy, but the foundations of science, politics, and society. In particular, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin eclipsed Hegel and Schelling as the architects of modern historical and evolutionary thought. Their models profoundly shaped the modern world—not as abstract metaphysics, but as engines of material transformation and social revolution.

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