Integrative Worldview

Description

Iam:

"Integrative Worldview — The emerging post-postmodern worldview that moves beyond both modernist universalism and postmodern relativism by combining ontological realism (reality exists independently of observation and is structured into irreducible strata) with epistemic pluralism (knowledge is perspectival, yet perspectives can be comparatively evaluated by depth, scope, differentiation, and integrative power). Its foundational principles include Ontological Realism and Stratified Causality, Epistemic Reflexivity and Perspectival Relativity, Integrative Pluralism, and Axiological Realism and Normative Necessity, each defined in this glossary. As an orientation it is a developmental achievement rather than a doctrine: it emerges through cultural and individual development and cannot be imposed from outside."

(https://appliedmetatheory.substack.com/p/the-ai-cold-war-and-its-threat-to)

What is an Integrative Worldview ?

Robb Smith:

"The Integrative worldview is the first in history to take care of humanity in the fullness of who we really are. It is the first to have the benefit of all of the world’s accumulated philosophical, scientific, artistic, political and spiritual knowledge; all of our accumulated insight and wisdom; from every continent, culture, and tradition; and across the entire span of human history and pre-history; and with all of that, to create a richly-detailed, scientifically-credible, and spiritually-meaningful story and framework of who we humans really are.

It is an emancipatory worldview, presenting a powerful, comprehensive map of where we’ve been, a credible blueprint of where we’re going, and an inspiring vision of what we can become. Of course, the causal arrows are multidimensional and co-arising, with knowledge sharing, identity formation, being-in-relation, worldview clarification and worldview emergence all part of an evolving meshwork of individual and social-level processes of knowing-being-becoming-learning.

It is a liberating worldview that sees—and provides empirical practice to realize—that reality is innately valuable, and that we are not just separate, alienated and appetitive creatures of little significance, but rather that we are intrinsic participants and contributors to a grand unfolding of a cosmos that is becoming more complex, more conscious and more valuable through our very participation.

It is an integrative worldview that weaves the splendor of every difference into a bigger pattern that connects, a broader whole that is evolving into more freedom, more fullness and more creative effulgence with each passing breath.

It is a compassionate and ethical worldview that honors the irreducible dignity of life, while committing to ever-ongoing service toward individual liberation, social emancipation and natural stewardship.

It is a sophisticated worldview, providing powerful frameworks, viewpoints, methods and social practices for engaging in the discovery, interpretation and epistemological grounding of every kind of human knowledge.

And it is a critical worldview, centering a normative commitment to, and providing the tools for, serious, deep and unabashed self-reflexive critique of itself and all other systems of thought.

In summary, it is a worldview capable of meeting the perils and the promise of humanity in the 21st century."

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