Ethics Archives – Integral Life

What Feels Right: An Embodied Perspective on the Ethical Line of Development

Emily Baratta — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:30:48 +0000

This article examines ethical frameworks across levels of human development and via the quadrants of the AQAL model. The ethical line is examined as it progresses through stages of development, paying special attention to the role of the felt sense in the determination of right action. The role of unconscious forces, particularly the felt sense of disgust, is examined as the basis of moral intuition. Integral Ethics includes the ethical framework of the previous stages and an examination of personal motivation for right action. By inquiring into the unconscious drives that move us, we may begin to recognize the cultural prejudices and excessive survival drives that can influence our determination of right action.

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AQAL and the Practice of Law

Mark Fischler — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:53:21 +0000

For many the practice of law is a dissatisfying experience. By providing a more comprehensive, AQAL vision for the practice of law, I speculate that lawyers can gain more satisfaction and meaning from their profession.

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Responding to Suffering and Evil: Integral Principles

Roger Walsh — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:00:54 +0000

Suffering and evil challenge us all, but several principles may help Integral practitioners to respond effectively. These include appreciating the role that unrecognized, limited perspectives (and corresponding worldviews) play in creating suffering and evil, and learning to recognize and release such limitations into more integral stances. Doing this skillfully requires taking up effective, authentic psychological and contemplative disciplines, and especially the disciplines of awakening service or karma yoga, whose central elements are described.

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Wicked Problems: Bringing Wisdom and Compassion to Immigration

Magdalena Smieszek — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 21:06:24 +0000

Immigration matters have been viewed by many as a "wicked problem" — implying a complexity that has sets of values in tension, something societies have dealt with since the very dawn of civilization itself. Watch as Magdalena, Mark, and Corey offer their own ideas and reflect on the reasons this issue has become one of the central fault lines in the culture wars.

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Criminology Needs an Integral Vision

Integral Life — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:43:00 +0000

This article supports the claim that there is substantial agreement within the discipline that criminology (and criminal justice) is in need of a change in approach. This article maintains that a framework is needed to organize the contributions and partial truths of existing disciplinary knowledge. It is argued that criminology needs an “orienting perspective” or a “meta-theory.” The article proposes that the Integral model provides a functional and apposite framework for addressing these problems. An in-depth, AQAL-based justification for this proposition is provided.

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The Meaning of Integral Criminology and Criminal Justice

Integral Life — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:30:00 +0000

This document was produced on the basis of a meeting that took place in March, 2001. There are some revisions reflecting activities and developments that have occurred since that meeting. Our intention is to suggest, in an introductory way, how the Integral approach could be applied to contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice. We explore issues of the War on Drugs, the death penalty, and juvenile justice as illustrations.

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Integral Correctional Education

Integral Life — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:23:00 +0000

This article is part one of an overview of Integral Correctional Education. It briefly introduces salient aspects of the field of correctional education, defines correctional education, introduces the Integral model, and outlines the historical periods of correctional education practice. A discussion of some core principles of correctional education is followed by some problems that afflict inmate students, correctional educators, and the communities they serve.

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The Morality of Meat

Jeff Salzman — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:22:31 +0000

If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?

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The Darth Vader Move

Ken Wilber — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 07:42:54 +0000

The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. The “Darth Vader move” is what happens when someone with an exceptionally high level of development uses the skills and capacities of that level for purposes generally deemed to be “wrong” — often the result of a highly developed cognitive intelligence combined with a poorly developed moral intelligence (Nazi scientists being the classic example). What happens when our higher angels get hijacked by our lowest demons? What is the cause of the Darth Vader move, and how can we prevent ourselves from being seduced by the Dark Side of the Force?

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Basic Moral Intuition: The Greatest Depth for the Greatest Span

Ken Wilber — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:35:40 +0000

Everyone has a general intuition of morality, but each person has to actually bring it into practice and make it relevant in one's own unique context. How can this understanding help us make better choices for ourselves and for the world? Listen to find out!

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