A return to eros

Continuing the last post, then of course there's Stein's blog post on the dangers of going meta. He concludes that the way out of meta(sta)sizing is doing a different form of metaphysics:

"One of the ways you know you are actually doing metaphysics is that you can no longer 'go meta' anymore; instead you must go 'intra' or 'inter' or 'inner.'”

Stein elaborates this different metaphyics in this piece. Therein, like the previous article above, we must go beyond merely intellectual meta(sta)sizing into our shared feelings of embodiment by "adopting metamodern metaphysical characterizations of the human based on an understanding of love as a transpersonal universal force akin to gravity [...] a form of cosmo-erotic humanism."

Related to the theme of the previous post:

"Indeed, many evolutionary theorists fall short of the full implications of what it means to hold an evolutionary worldview. Engaging in a participatory metaphysics of Eros involves a realization that evolution is not a process happening 'out there,' merely to be studied from the third-person point of view. Our lives and relationships are the very stuff of evolution. The 'self-organizing universe' continues on through us; the core of human interiors and consciousness are nothing but our inheritance of a cosmic evolutionary love. This must be the basis of any science or psychology of human behavior and motivation. Reality itself has been shown to be ceaselessly creative and driven always by an erotic advance into novelty, which means that ethics needs to be appropriately reconstructed."