Talk:Spiritual evolution
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A surprisingly thick, glossy magazine I stumbled across, "What is Enlightenment?" (Issue 24, April-March), has a long article called "Shifting Modern Ground: The Dilemma of Ethics in an Out-of-Control World" by Elizabeth A. Debold, p. 51. The piece doesn't just define spiritual evolution but puts it into a 2004 context, with examples! Good discussion of how we make moral choices in the postmodern "Developed World," how we can get beyond the fucking crazy-awareness that holds us back from serious involvement, and how to embrace cultural and religious otherness without being afraid to take a stand. Challenging and uplifting. (But why so glossy? Who's paying for it?)
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We need someone to do stuff like German Idealism and so on for the article. I only added to material on subjects I'm familiar with M Alan Kazlev 04:59, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks Goethean :-)
M Alan Kazlev 00:01, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I never miss a chance to mention my namesake. --Goethean 02:37, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Energy Driven Evolution
I've just taken out all the material which I know to be innaccurate in the section, which was almost all of it. The misrepresentation of science was nearly total. If Nijhout was to hear that his work on envirnmental cues was being presented as proof of cosmic rays driving evolution he would be shocked, and not just because it's completely unrelated to his work. Looks to me like covert spamming, frankly. Jefffire 10:08, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removing Aristotle from the list of proponents
I do not believe that Aristotle could have held that "nature and human beings and/or human culture evolve along a predetermined cosmological pattern or ascent, or in accordance with certain pre-determined potentials". It is true that Aristotle believed that living things had certain potentials which they ought ideally to develop in certian ways. However, this was in no way an '[evolution] along a predetermined cosmological pattern or ascent' the fact that it is in accordance with pre-determined potentials does not make it an example of 'spiritual evolution'. (Aristotelian souls are odd things to associate with spirituality at all, being mere functions rather than things, but that is almost besire the point.) If you revert, please include a reference to the place where Aristotle supports this theory. Anarchia 10:55, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
