Eric Schaezle's Introduction to Multi-Perspectival Relationalist Philosophies
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= Article: Perspectivism. By Eric Schaetzle.
URL = https://pedon.blogspot.com/2021/06/relationalism.html
Very good introduction to the various branches of relational thought, both East and West.
Summary
"This article explores a process-relational understanding of the observer-observed dynamic, which can be seen as a dialogue within and between three dichotomies that often reappear in the course of its application:
- One-Many (composed of fractal parts, infinite continua, internally differentiating aspects): Every description of the world is from inside, they are all in the first person. ...
- Independent-Interdependent (contextuality of relations, pathos and ethics, causality, logical connectives, etc.): To say that something is real is to say that it participates in relations with other things. Facts are relative to observers. ...
- Rest-Motion: (the process and possibility of continuous change, flux, transformation): Everything flows. As a global culture, we have yet to join a relational conception of economics with the expanding circle of empathy through means of a transpersonal perspective. ...
Excerpts
- Iain McGilchrist on General Pathologies of Perspective
- Multi-Scale Perspectivism
- Interdisciplinary Perspectivist Approaches
- Nietzsche's Perspectivism
- Thomas Kuhn's Perspectivism
- Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation as Anti-Perspectivism
- Donella Meadows and Paul Hawken's Eco-Centric Perspectivism
- Zhuangzi's Perspectivism
- Relational Ontology of Carlo Revelli
- Relationalism of Wang Yangming