Kingdom Come: Postmetaphysical Inclusivism? (My Conference Paper) - Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality2024-03-29T06:04:59Zhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/kingdom-come-postmetaphysical?id=5301756%3ATopic%3A1669&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThis morning, I came across a…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-11-01:5301756:Comment:438992012-11-01T19:20:34.673ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>This morning, I came across a review of an interesting-looking (and apparently must-read) text for me:</p>
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<p><a href="http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24483-integral-pluralism-beyond-culture-wars/" target="_blank">Integral Pluralism</a></p>
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<p>Excerpt from review: </p>
<p class="NDPRBodyTexT">"In his most recent volume, <i>Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, Fred Dallmayr again demonstrates, as he has throughout his distinguished career,…</span></p>
<p>This morning, I came across a review of an interesting-looking (and apparently must-read) text for me:</p>
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<p><a href="http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24483-integral-pluralism-beyond-culture-wars/" target="_blank">Integral Pluralism</a></p>
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<p>Excerpt from review: </p>
<p class="NDPRBodyTexT">"In his most recent volume, <i>Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, Fred Dallmayr again demonstrates, as he has throughout his distinguished career, his passionate commitment to making ours a more just and peaceful world. His central concern in this work is that, with postmodernism's steady move toward pluralism and emphatic rejection of totalizing monisms of every sort, there is a danger of cosmic incoherence whereby "individual lives likewise become incoherent and unintelligible" (1) and rendered incapable of effective engagement in the world. Dallmayr warns us:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="NDPRBodyTexT">Pluralism harbors a danger that curiously approximates it again to the monistic temptation. Carried to the extreme of radical fragmentation or dispersal, pluralism -- despite its protestations -- shades over into an assembly of fixed and self-enclosed monadic units exhibiting the same quality as its counterpart (8-9).</p>
<p class="NDPRBodyTexT">Such fragmentation, he further suggests, is a major source for today's "culture wars." </p>
<p class="NDPRBodyTexT">As an antidote to radical, atomizing pluralism, and as a middle position between it and tyrannizing monism, Dallmayr offers "integral pluralism," which he finds well exemplified already by classical pragmatists such as John Dewey, but especially by William James in <i>A Pluralistic Universe</i><span style="font-style: normal;">. Integral pluralism entails "mutual embroilment, interpenetration, and contestation … differential entwinement without fusion or segregation" (9). The universe is taken as incomplete, but its pieces maintain real, although sometimes antagonistic, relations to one another. Other, non-Western thinkers whom Dallmayr offers as exemplars of integral pluralism are the philosopher of religion, Raimon Panikkar, whom Dallmayr discusses throughout this volume (and with whom this reviewer was privileged to study), Mahatma Gandhi, who receives a full chapter (Chapter 7), and two other, recently deceased Indian thinkers, little known in the West, Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi (a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi), who are the central subjects of the concluding chapter (Chapter 8). This reviewer is very appreciative of being made aware of these last two thinkers, and Dallmayr's interesting account of them has prompted him to read them first-hand."</span></p>
<p> </p> Thank you, David!
And theur…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-04-18:5301756:Comment:404532012-04-18T19:11:19.601ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Thank you, David!</p>
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<p>And theurj, yes, I think that dynamic shows up in many subtle ways. I think Kela describes it well. Integral emphasizes the values of inclusion, or comprehensive inclusiveness, which I think <em>can</em> be differentiated from inclusivism, but given some of our recent conversations I'm thinking a different sort of metaphor altogether might be in order.</p>
<p>Thank you, David!</p>
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<p>And theurj, yes, I think that dynamic shows up in many subtle ways. I think Kela describes it well. Integral emphasizes the values of inclusion, or comprehensive inclusiveness, which I think <em>can</em> be differentiated from inclusivism, but given some of our recent conversations I'm thinking a different sort of metaphor altogether might be in order.</p> Kudos brother B!tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-04-17:5301756:Comment:404502012-04-17T17:30:45.184ZDaviduhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/Davidu
<p>Kudos brother B!</p>
<p>Kudos brother B!</p> I was just re-reading kela's…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-04-17:5301756:Comment:402832012-04-17T13:59:25.060ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>I was just re-reading kela's <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-brief-note-on-inclusivism" target="_self">note on inclusivism</a> and how it is invariably about hegemony, including but not limited to Buddhism.</p>
<p>"It sometimes appears (or masquarades) as a kind of pluralism, but in the end it is about the dominance of some particular tradition...and the subordination of all other traditions to that tradition."</p>
<p>I was just re-reading kela's <a href="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-brief-note-on-inclusivism" target="_self">note on inclusivism</a> and how it is invariably about hegemony, including but not limited to Buddhism.</p>
<p>"It sometimes appears (or masquarades) as a kind of pluralism, but in the end it is about the dominance of some particular tradition...and the subordination of all other traditions to that tradition."</p> Gracias, Doug y Mary!tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-01-19:5301756:Comment:392332012-01-19T06:25:04.353ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Gracias, Doug y Mary!</p>
<p>Gracias, Doug y Mary!</p> Bravo, Bruce!
tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-01-19:5301756:Comment:390382012-01-19T04:56:51.172ZMary W.http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/MaryW
<p>Bravo, Bruce!</p>
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<p>Bravo, Bruce!</p>
<p></p> Congrates, Bruce! ;-)
I just…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-01-18:5301756:Comment:390332012-01-18T20:34:59.528ZDouglas R Wallackhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/DouglasRWallack
<p>Congrates, Bruce! ;-)</p>
<p>I just resubscribed yesterday. Looking forward to the hard copy.</p>
<p><br></br> <br></br> <cite>Balder said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/kingdom-come-postmetaphysical?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A38942&xg_source=msg_com_forum#5301756Comment39129"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Wow, my essay made the <a href="http://integrallife.com/node/122317" target="_blank">Top 10 list</a> for JITP in…</p>
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<p>Congrates, Bruce! ;-)</p>
<p>I just resubscribed yesterday. Looking forward to the hard copy.</p>
<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Balder said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/kingdom-come-postmetaphysical?commentId=5301756%3AComment%3A38942&xg_source=msg_com_forum#5301756Comment39129"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Wow, my essay made the <a href="http://integrallife.com/node/122317" target="_blank">Top 10 list</a> for JITP in 2011.</p>
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</blockquote> Thank you, bro.tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-01-18:5301756:Comment:389422012-01-18T02:07:07.233ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Thank you, bro.</p>
<p>Thank you, bro.</p> Well deserved at that.tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-01-18:5301756:Comment:392252012-01-18T01:59:51.742ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Well deserved at that.</p>
<p>Well deserved at that.</p> Wow, my essay made the Top 10…tag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2012-01-17:5301756:Comment:391292012-01-17T23:24:32.839ZBalderhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/BruceAlderman
<p>Wow, my essay made the <a href="http://integrallife.com/node/122317" target="_blank">Top 10 list</a> for JITP in 2011.</p>
<p>Wow, my essay made the <a href="http://integrallife.com/node/122317" target="_blank">Top 10 list</a> for JITP in 2011.</p>