AtD post...the Chums, misc. and even more misc

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 28 13:27:29 CDT 2009


Ian L writes:

"Maybe Wilber is near the heart of the matter when he says that people
all start out at the same developmental stage and progress along their
particular developmental path until they get off and say "that's
enough.  I'll just stay at this stage."  Most commonly that stage is
the stage of ethnocentric values in which "my group" is the right one
and everyone else is wrong."

Q: Could this summarize, in a tangential way, where the Chums are at the end of AtD? 
Western Civ-centric historically? 

A---and, we had some postings on the 'growth', 'maturity' of the Chums as AtD progressed.

I have posted the ending paragraph of The Theory of Justice and its use of 'grace' and the notion
 of Rawls' theory dealing with all the issues that arise which is very akin to that line about the Chums balloon
habitat able to take on 'all the questions, if not having all the answers". 

I have now browsed more solidly in The Theory of Justice---cannot say I've read it much yet--- and there is this: 
an argument for a typical [Western Civ] human being's moral development using Piaget, other psychologists through adolescense
and adulthood. One might track the Chums in AtD thru his rough schema.  


      




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