In a recent FB post I linked to that now infamous, classic integral essay "Giving guns to children." I've been searching for articles on an integral ethics and found the below
from PCC Forum, a presentation by Sean Kelly on a
complex-integral ethics. The blurb on it follows:
This talk is a contribution to what I hope will be a more sustained
dialogue between the project of integral theory founded by Ken Wilber
and the method (or "Way") of complexity initiated by Edgar Morin. The
focus for this portion of the dialogue is an inquiry into the nature of
the ethical, with the assumption that such an inquiry can assist us in
becoming more responsible participants in this most critical phase of
the Planetary Era, the challenge of which can be understood as ethical
to the core. Following a brief consideration of the idea of the
Planetary Era, along with some preliminary thoughts on the nature of the
ethical and its relation to theory in general, and to the project of
integral theory in particular, I will explore several areas of
conceptual overlap, complementarity, and creative tension in the
proposals put forward by Wilber and Morin. These areas include: 1. a
characterization of modernity in terms of a necessary differentiation
and subsequent dissociation of constitutive elements (Wilber's "Big
Three" of I, We, It; Morin's trinity of individual, society, and
species). 2. the postulation of a fundamental ethical principle
(Wilber's "Basic Moral Intuition" and Morin's notion of "re-liance"); 3.
a multi-dimensional view ethical praxis with a focus on the
transformation of
individual consciousness; and 4. a highlighting of the
evolutionary primacy of love.
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