Presentation given yesterday to high-school youth at the Maria-Theresia Gymnasium in Munich, Germany. It shows why despite all crises there is a lot of hope, which comes from higher levels of consciousness that follows the New Age movement of the 1960s. It is the Integral Movement lead by my very dear friend and one of the most brilliant minds on this planet today Ken Wilber. It integrates humanity's value system, called by Plato, the True, the Good, and the Beautiful
The dominance of rational thought especially as manifested in science and academia as well as Industrial manufacturing and the rationalization of production. Capitalism, geared towards the calculated, systematic pursuit of profit. Codified law representing the rational organization of justice, nation state, bureaucracy, and separation between private and public spheres. Reason, especially as manifested in science and technology, promised control of nature and social equality. People on the early modern era were convinced that progress in science would bring the solution to all social ills.
Unfortunately, differentiation led to the disassociation of the value spheres -
As Max Weber called it the “disenchantment of the world” – the Great Next of Being was denied its validity (Wilber, 1998) – science became the new religion.
Yet, we find the Great Next of Being in all societies and cultures around the world including in Plato’s Republic: the True the Good and the Beautiful
Sir Karl Popper’s subjective, cultural, objective
Juergen Habermas’ Validity Claims: subjective sincerity, inter-subjective justness, objective truth
Lao Tzu, Confucius, and/or Immanuel Kant’s 3 Critiques: Pure Reason (objective science), Practical Reason (morals), Judgment (aesthetic judgment, art)