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

[Ian Livingston]

Mark,

This sounds like an interesting source.  I'll check it out.  For my
part I might recommend Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology, in which he
offers a strategy for integrating the key points of several models of
developmental theory.

-i

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Ian L writes:
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> "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."
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> Q: Could this summarize, in a tangential way, where the Chums are at the end of AtD?
> Western Civ-centric historically?
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> A---and, we had some postings on the 'growth', 'maturity' of the Chums as AtD progressed.
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> 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".
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> 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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