#ervin laszlo

[entheognosis]

We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time.

Ervin Laszlo

[noosphe-re]

A higher level of organization offers fresh possibilities for complexification; the greater variety of components available to the suprasystem allows a larger range of structural and functional variation, with new connections imposed among the connected subsystems. Thus, by moving to a new organizational level, evolution penetrates to ever higher and more varied forms of structure and function.

Ervin László, Evolution: The Grand Synthesis

[divaricca]

"There is a Universal Creative Force connecting all beings and things, a source of love and wisdom that can be drawn from and revealed through the creation of works of art."

- Ervin Laszlo

[maaarine]

MBTI & Ideas

Individualism, Collectivism, and Political Power (Ervin Laszlo, 1963)

“In carrying the above argument further, it becomes evident that almost every complex of sense-data may be comprehended by two basic modes of comprehension:

(a) as the sum total of properties representing a specific degree of relevance for the subject's existence,

and (b) as the sum total of properties given in themselves.

Now these two modes of comprehension are marked by definite distinguishing characteristics.

Objects comprehended as the sum total of relevant properties signify a subjective mode of comprehension:

the object is evaluated in the context of the subject's relations to his environment.

The object is denoted by the subject as the opposite pole of the subject-object relation.

Its individual, independent characteristics are ignored, or else play a secondary role, for the object is seen as the sum total of actual or potential sensations.

Consequently not the object's but the subject's properties have been instrumental in assigning the concept through which comprehension takes place.

The comprehension results from the cognition of the relation of the object to the subject, and is evaluated correspondingly to the subject's existential needs and requirements.

In this event the object is understood as being relationally real.

Now objects comprehended as independently real signify an abstraction of their inferred properties from the subject's sphere of existence.

The object is understood as the sum total of relevant properties, grouped in a complex which itself exists, regardless of its relevance.

The properties are abstracted from the context of the subject's existence, and are attributed exclusively to the object. (…)

The subjective mode of comprehension is characterized by a greater measure of concentration on the immediate means and ends of subsistence,

and the objective mode signifies greater intellectual powers.”

[chidisbookshelf]

{Note: this is a pretty massive set of titles, so I’m placing it behind a cut to avoid clogging people’s dashboard!}

Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener

Terry L. Cooper, Handbook of Administrative Ethics

Errol E. Harris, Fundamentals of Philosophy: A Study of Classical Texts

Albert William Levi, Philosophy and the Modern World

Samuel Enoch Stumpf, Philosophy: History & Problems

Frederick James Crosson and Kenneth Sayre, Philosophy and Cybernetics

Frank N. Magill, Masterpieces of World Philosophy

Encyclopedia Britannica, The Great Ideas Program

Thomas McPherson, Social Philosophy

Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy, Volume 1 (Greece and Rome)

Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy, Volume 2 (Medieval Philosophy)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, In Praise of Philosophy 

Ervin Laszlo, Introduction to Systems Philosophy

Benjamin Farrington, Aristotle: Founder of Scientific Philosophy

James K. Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy: A Popular History of Ideas

Aristotle

Plato

Joseph Goldstein, The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation

Tom L. Beauchamp, Philosophical Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

Martin Heidegger, The Beginning of Western Philosophy

Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics

Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

Tay Zonday, Chocolate Book

Season 03, Episode 1 (”Everything is Bonzer!”)

[amokedas]

We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time.

Ervin Laszlo

Dawn of the Akashic Age

[noosphe-re]

There are no simple causes and isolated effects; all things cause and determine each other. Everything that occurs, no matter how minute and local, is the outcome of all that has occurred before and is the ground for all that will occur thereafter. Reality is like a system of interacting waves. Rather than discrete things and independent events, there are but ripples upon ripples upon waves upon waves in this universe, propagating and interpenetrating in a seamless sea.

Ervin László, The Creative Cosmos

[noosphe-re]

Imagine a universe made up not of things in space and in time, but of patterned flows extending throughout its reaches. What flows is a mysterious, nonindividualized something we call energy. It flows along pathways structured by the metric of integral space-time. It flows smoothly, without crinks or wrinkles, over vast stretches of this cosmic matrix, and it becomes contorted in some regions.

Ervin László, Introduction to Systems Philosophy