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9781138803824 English 1138803820 This book sketches the contours of a vision that moves beyond the dominant paradigm or worldview that underlies and governs modernity (and postmodernity). It does so by drawing on the remarkable leap in human consciousness that occurred during the Axial Age and on a cross-pollination of what are arguably the three most comprehensive integrative metatheories available today: Complex thought, integral theory and critical realism i.e. a complex integral realism. By deploying the three integrative metatheories this book recounts how the seeds of a number of biases within the Western tradition analytical over dialectical, epistemology over ontology, presence over absence and exterior over interior were first sown in axial Greece, later consolidated in European modernity and then challenged throughout the 20th century. It then discusses the remedies provided by the three integrative philosophies, remedies that have paved the way for a new vision. Outlining a new axial vision for the twenty-first century which integrates the best of premodernity, modernity and postmodernity within a complex integral realist framework, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the Axial Age, critical realism, integral theory and complex thought. It will also appeal to those interested in a possible integration of the insights and knowledge gleaned by science, spirituality and philosophy.", Towards a Complex Integral Realism considers the three philosophies of critical realism and their core strengths and weaknesses before then considering an overall common ground against human nature. The book looks ahead to further possible applications of a complex, integral realism, like a complex integral realist ethics, a more complete complex integral realist transformative praxis, a complex integral realist eudaimonics, and a complex integral realist exercise in concrete utopianism. Part one will therefore introduce the three philosophies of critical realism, integral theory and complex thought, and then provide essential sketches with the aim of providing an orienting overview of the key features of each philosophy. Part two then offers a brief account of the core strengths and emphases of each philosophy the natural sciences, complex epistemology, anthropology and human emancipation (complex thought); the social sciences, depth ontology, philosophy and social emancipation (critical realism); and the interior human sciences (psychology), enactment (epistemology and methodology), spirituality/mysticism and individual emancipation and how these different strengths operate within an overall common ground. Finally, part three will then apply this complex, integral realist vision to one particularly complex phenomena: human nature."
9781138803824 English 1138803820 This book sketches the contours of a vision that moves beyond the dominant paradigm or worldview that underlies and governs modernity (and postmodernity). It does so by drawing on the remarkable leap in human consciousness that occurred during the Axial Age and on a cross-pollination of what are arguably the three most comprehensive integrative metatheories available today: Complex thought, integral theory and critical realism i.e. a complex integral realism. By deploying the three integrative metatheories this book recounts how the seeds of a number of biases within the Western tradition analytical over dialectical, epistemology over ontology, presence over absence and exterior over interior were first sown in axial Greece, later consolidated in European modernity and then challenged throughout the 20th century. It then discusses the remedies provided by the three integrative philosophies, remedies that have paved the way for a new vision. Outlining a new axial vision for the twenty-first century which integrates the best of premodernity, modernity and postmodernity within a complex integral realist framework, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the Axial Age, critical realism, integral theory and complex thought. It will also appeal to those interested in a possible integration of the insights and knowledge gleaned by science, spirituality and philosophy.", Towards a Complex Integral Realism considers the three philosophies of critical realism and their core strengths and weaknesses before then considering an overall common ground against human nature. The book looks ahead to further possible applications of a complex, integral realism, like a complex integral realist ethics, a more complete complex integral realist transformative praxis, a complex integral realist eudaimonics, and a complex integral realist exercise in concrete utopianism. Part one will therefore introduce the three philosophies of critical realism, integral theory and complex thought, and then provide essential sketches with the aim of providing an orienting overview of the key features of each philosophy. Part two then offers a brief account of the core strengths and emphases of each philosophy the natural sciences, complex epistemology, anthropology and human emancipation (complex thought); the social sciences, depth ontology, philosophy and social emancipation (critical realism); and the interior human sciences (psychology), enactment (epistemology and methodology), spirituality/mysticism and individual emancipation and how these different strengths operate within an overall common ground. Finally, part three will then apply this complex, integral realist vision to one particularly complex phenomena: human nature."