There was Freud, there was Jung, and there will Ken Wilber , they say. I discovered an article about him rather categorical in tone and nervous but let's be forgiving. It is well known that the res cogitata third world can legitimately lose his composure, where his displays a sovereign thinker conceptual mastery, which confirms its superiority. But if I had to write this article myself, I would at least moderate the title with a form interrogative rather than affirmative: "Ken Wilber is it as racist as the Nazis and the KKK?" For in Indeed, I do not think the gray areas highlighted by the author are voluntary on the part of Wilber. They are a legacy fatal and unconscious. Anyway, this text is well articulated and focused on real faults of the alleged integral philosophy, even if the author believes that Wilber is a man of the extreme right America, of which the crypto-racism is well and truly aware. The model of spiral dynamics in eight stages of Wilber's spiritual Darwinism, grotesque vision of the magical and symbolic specific to the indigenous world, mean that his thought does not at all in the Andean intellectuals. But Wilber knows he only ensure the existence of "native intellectuals", some fascinated, if not downright hostile to the extravagant construction of its integral philosophy? Thus, for Wilber, the level purple, magical-animist ethnic tribes in this, would not be far from a zero level of spiritual evolution: "For Wilber states Awareness of shamans (and in general states of consciousness of the individual members of indigenous tribes) are merely states of consciousness primitive and inferior, and pre-conventional préformels . Our columnist cartoon probably native of Wilber's position, but it is clear that the pre-trans distinction , yet so useful these days, came to sink in sometimes paternalistic and colonialist arrogance, thinking universal and holistic.
ship first post-modern. According to Wilber, " seen in the light of consciousness and transpersonal mondialocentrique, we can consider Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan as inferior. " It's one thing that can not support the postmodern multiculturalist positions without contradicting himself. Because in the post-modern dogma, all cultures, including Nazism, are logically incommensurable. Remember the arguments put forward by Lyotard in The différand where post-modernism, so interesting about his critique of rationalism and modernism, eventually show gaping limits. Lyotard writes that the confrontation between a member of the Gestapo and the Jewish victim remains unsolved Valorie, because they are two distinct and incommensurable discourses. As post-modern, notes there, we can not legitimately use the authority of any ethical meta-narrative to make judgments, so it is possible to appeal to human rights or the rights of peoples to denounce atrocities such as genocide. All that remains finally to post-modernism, is a contemplation of reality by means of parameters such as consumerist aesthetic and the beautiful and the ugly, the pleasant and unpleasant, and without dramatic interest. We can certainly continue to talk about "differences" cultural, socio-economic, religious, but there is suddenly more way to enhance these "differences" in terms of marginalization, exploitation, oppression or injustice, because in the post-modernism is more metanarratives for these calibrations. There are plural truths, relating, diluted, and ethical values are transformed into purely aesthetic values and indifferent, as can be seen everywhere nowadays. Anything goes ...
Wilber is clear that limit post-modernism, and considers that its system of integral philosophy is superior, both in its consistency as his ethics. But what he fails to notice is racism implicit in his rankings and insult that means for those involved. Apparently, the natives are to him mere abstractions and objects of thought, children who are only re cogitata First World wilbertienne whose rationality is derived. Certainly, a view mondiocentrique, Nazis and the KKK who embody ethnocentric views, can be considered inferior. But the Nazis and the KKK have levels below them on which they can assert their superiority and spiritual levels that Wilber calls egocentric. "And who are, for Wilber, the egocentric? These are the indigenous peoples . Nazi and KKK. are part of level 4, level even blue. This level is higher than that Wilber is the native level 2 or even purple. That confirmed the evolutionary superiority of the executioners on the victims. It boggles the mind, as you hold very strong when Wilber and Beck say the same green (level 6) of the sensitive self, ecological, egalitarian and anti-hierarchical is exclusively present in contemporary Western culture. Any enhancement of the indigenous world in this direction would also Wilber for that of pure romance.
I can not comment on the rankings here rigid. It seems more productive to emphasize once more the attitude of the native, full of health fails us as we contemplate our navel intellectual and technological, is able to notice very quickly that biased universalism, denouncing the hegemonic pretensions of a strictly localized point of view. It's a bit like our Western universalist thinkers ever fell into the same error, causing the great leveling world. It converts the particularity of a philosophy (in relation to its context) in universality and supra-cultural, whenever this philosophy is the philosophy of universal . The maximum expression of this ideological category mistake (Ryle) is found in the Hegelian equation: " philosophy of the Absolute is absolute philosophy." In politics, the same phenomenon expressed in the dogmatic maçonnico-universalist in Illustration. Ear natives, who did not learn of humanism and spirituality to receive a big brother, this well-intentioned dogmatic takes on a strong accent of West-centrism and neo-colonialism. It is clear that the philosophy of Wilber is no exception to this lack of incorporation. It is neither complete nor mondiocentrée, but only West-centered in all the rankings that it offers. This, our native - radical otherness of our Westernness - was best placed to notice that any non-dualistic or universalist fascinated by Wilber. Without the light of intercultural otherness, not our own natives, we would not see anything about these serious inconsistencies and will probably continue to believe that our ideas are universal and integral good, bearing a bright future. Can he rise to a supra-cultural universality without genuine interculturalism?
Above all discourse on fashion universalism, mono or multi-culturalism, we could recommend to political as well as spiritual look more closely to the philosophies of multiculturalism, rather than acknowledge such criticism of conservatism Enlightenment from the southern hemisphere. It is we who are behind this otherness that we propose, and rightly so, since it comes out nothing new in the old world , Darwinism, Conservative and haughty as a whole when s' acts to assess the evolution of the other in the light of its universality.
" philosophy of intercultural criticism any absolutist and universalist claims of Western philosophy as a typical case of idealization: a determinate conception of the world, emerged in a particular culture is conceived and defined as design universally valid and true. The purpose super and supra-cultural Western philosophy in theory, becomes imperialism and economic hegemony and political practice. In modernity, this gives the equation that the process of development and progress coincides with the process of Westernization (J. Estermann, Filosofía Andina sabiduría mundo nuevo para un indígena , ISEAT, 2007, p.37).
It is clear that Wilber is impregnated with this defect, which is interpreted as universal, but confused and supra-cultural super-culturalism. Wilber's genius can not in any case not understand the native light. He estimated less than that of the Nazis and far from a perspective not universal, but West-centered. That's why the author of the article I commented on the class and complete "integral philosophy " Wilber in the same blue, along with the Nazis, rather than in the same Turquoise holistic vision. Here we find the way which the West sees itself, and that he is seen in many regions of the southern hemisphere. "Rationalism Wilber, excessively prominent role it accords to reason as the basis of ethics, spirituality and all aspects of human development, led him to become enormously racist," the columnist concludes This article inflamed and intuitive, which brings us back to the reason why.
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