The Enlightened Worldview Project

25/04/2023

Our proposed online course: "The Meta-Crisis - What it is and what you can do about it" is live on Github for the current funding round. Please contribute and help give us the funding to make this course a reality

Create & Manage Rounds

22/11/2022

We recently updated our website with a more detailed project mission. Check it out

Our goal is to address the culture of conflict in our media that is holding us back. We seek to help create an accelerate a culture of productive and peaceful interaction.

20/03/2022

Check out the latest version of our organizational startup pitch https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vSRtOO2NiK7ZB87T7CS7uh3WIhNKbpBH/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117491835000953037563&rtpof=true&sd=true

A Quest to Promote Peace through Societal Understanding & Inner Awareness Introducing a new philanthropic endeavor Featuring an integrative approach to addressing our greatest society-wide challenges by starting at the community level

28/11/2021

What is Our Goal? What Kind of Peace are We Seeking? - https://mailchi.mp/084952e5d0f6/worldview-self-assessment-quiz-is-available-online-9723469

09/08/2021

Consensus Building and the Monolectic vs. Dialectic Distinction
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/consensus-building-and-the-monolectic-vs-dialectic-distinction/

02/08/2021

The Connection between Integral and Metamodern Thinking and Spirituality
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/integral-metemodern-spirituality/

The concept of worldview is pretty central to my work, and there are different ways of categorizing worldviews. I want to add some depth to a post I wrote last year, which I began by restating a summary of Annick de Witt’s model for categorization, which involves a world cartoon graphic that shows...

25/07/2021

Ideas on the Nomothetic vs. Idiographic Distinction
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/ideas-on-the-nomothetic-vs-idiographic-distinction/

19/07/2021

Non-Introspective Cognitive Science Methods and Misappropriation of “-phenomenology”
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/non-introspective-cognitive-science-methods-and-misappropriation-of-phenomenology/

In recent weeks, I’ve been posting a lot about phenomenology, including what it is essentially and the different branches. It is also worth addressing the so-called practice of “hetero-phenomenology”. This term was coined by Daniel Dennett, who defined it as phenomenology of someone other than...

12/07/2021

What is Hermeneutic Phenomenology?
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/what-is-hermeneutic-phenomenology/

This post is the second in a series on the main branches of mature phenomenology. You might want to start with the prior posts about transcendental phenomenology and existential phenomenology if you have not already done so. The third major branch of mature phenomenology uses hermeneutic methods to....

04/07/2021

What is Existential Phenomenology?
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/what-is-existential-phenomenology/

27/06/2021

What is Transcendental Phenomenology?
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/what-is-transcendental-phenomenology/

This post is the first in a series on the main branches of mature phenomenology. In past posts, I argued that there was proto-phenomenology in the Eastern and Western philosophical traditions going all the way back to ancient times. We can recognize probably four major branches of mature phenomenolo...

20/06/2021

Developments in Hermeneutics and the Impact on Phenomenology
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/developments-in-hermeneutics-and-the-impact-on-phenomenology/

13/06/2021

Early Developments in Psychology as a Science and the Usage of Intersubjectivity
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/early-developments-in-psychology-as-a-science-and-the-usage-of-intersubjectivity/

This post continues the series on the Nineteenth Century intellectual movements and schools that influenced the development of mature phenomenology in the early Twentieth Century. If you haven’t yet read last week’s post on existentialism, you might want to start there. In the 200 years followin...

06/06/2021

How Early Forms of Existentialism Influenced Phenomenology
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/how-early-forms-of-existentialism-influenced-phenomenology/

Before I get to this week’s post, I want to introduce the series, which is on Nineteenth Century movements that influenced phenomenology. There were interesting and influential innovations in thought that started in the mid to late Nineteenth Century. Science was becoming perhaps the most powerful...

29/05/2021

Proto-Phenomenology in the Early Modern Eastern Tradition
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/proto-phenomenology-in-the-early-modern-eastern-tradition/

This post continues the series on the historical development of proto-phenomenology and intersubjective thought and methodology from ancient times to the present. You might want to start with the post on proto-phenomenology in the ancient and medieval Eastern world if you haven’t already. Most of ...

25/05/2021

Proto-Phenomenology in the Early Modern Western Tradition
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/proto-phenomenology-early-modern-west/

This post continues the series on the historical development of proto-phenomenology and intersubjective thought and methodology from ancient times to the present. You might want to start with the post on proto-phenomenology in the ancient and medieval Western world if you haven’t already. Starting...

16/05/2021

Proto-Phenomenology in the Ancient and Medieval Eastern World
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/proto-phenomenology-in-the-ancient-and-medieval-eastern-world/

Based on the generalized definition of proto-phenomenology given in the prior post, we can find very rich examples of this in Eastern Philosophy as well. In fact, we can say that the so-called “mindfulness revolution” started in the ancient Eastern world. The Eastern philosophical tradition is g...

10/05/2021

Proto-Phenomenology in the Ancient and Medieval Western World
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/proto-phenomenology-in-the-ancient-and-medieval-western-world/

Phenomenology is usually considered to have begun in the early Twentieth Century with the work of Edmund Husserl, but the central ideas had already been in development by earlier thinkers. Meditative practices and intersubjective philosophical discourse can perhaps be seen as proto-phenomenology, an...

03/05/2021

My Recent Talk with Gregg Henriques about Social Science and UTOK
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/my-recent-talk-with-gregg-henriques-about-social-science-and-utok/

26/04/2021

The Four Modes of Understanding
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/the-four-modes-of-understanding/

In earlier posts, I wrote on the distionction between objectivity and subjectivity and I also wrote about intersubjectivity as mutually understood subjectivity. In this post, I’ll explain this new notion of transjectivity, which can be understood as the interplay between subjectivity and objectivi...

04/04/2021

Intersubjectivity as Mutually Understood Subjectivity
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/intersubjectivity-as-mutually-understood-subjectivity/

27/03/2021

Our Understanding of the Present Can Help us Understand the Past and Vice Versa
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/our-understanding-of-the-present-can-help-us-understand-the-past-and-vice-versa/

Since understanding history is so important, there has to be a certain kind of science to help sort out fact from fiction. We need to be able to compare and contrast historical situations and developments within time periods, cultures, countries, nations, and civilizations in order to extract lesson...

19/03/2021

Why History is Important to Our Lives
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/why-history-important-life/

Understanding history as accurately as possible is important because a person’s orientation toward the present and the way that they go about life is very much based on their conception of the past. At the most basic level, this starts with one’s personal memories and those their family, their c...

12/03/2021

How Social Verification Works
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/how-social-verification-works/

28/02/2021

The Formation of Worldviews over the Course of Human Development
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/the-formation-of-worldviews-over-the-course-of-human-development/

19/02/2021

How Beliefs are Structured Within the Mind
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/how-beliefs-are-structured-within-the-mind/

13/02/2021

Some Example Claims and Narratives and How We Can Evaluate Them
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/some-example-claims-and-narratives-and-how-we-can-evaluate-them/

A claim that meets all of the aforementioned conditions is likely to be epistemically justified, though if a claim meets most of these conditions but not all of them, then it will still probably be reasonable to believe it in many situations. The following hypothetical examples demonstrate the impor...

07/02/2021

The Criteria We Can Use to Evaluate Claims
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/the-criteria-we-can-use-to-evaluate-claims/

We know that we are being bombarded with information and that it is important to try to discern fact from fiction and honesty from lies. We know that even well-meaning people can inadvertently introduce their own distortions and erroneous judgments into our information space. We need to be able to f...

30/01/2021

How Can We Assess the Media Landscape?
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/the-media-landscape/

In the Twenty First Century, the news media landscape has become overwhelming. There is 24 hour continuous coverage that often features obsessive real-time analysis of minute details and also immediate spin and posturing from people who would like to capitalize politically on every event. Things hav...

23/01/2021

Scientific Research and the Information Ecology
https://www.enlightenedworldview.com/scientific-research-and-the-information-ecology/

Any legitimate scientific research, whether it is conducted within academia or governmental agencies or private corporations or professional societies, should include certain self-correcting processes such as documentation, reproducibility, and peer review. Science is essentially conducted as a mult...