Experientialism: Integrating Mind & Body, Spirit & Matter, the Many & the One...argues that "experience" is a word that needs to be transformed from its traditional use as a type of personal contact with an impersonal environment into a word defined by necessary elements of cognition, affect, behavior, sensation and the environment, as owned [by each person]. As such, experience will equal reality.
...a concise introduction to a new philosophy that continues and transforms the tradition established by phenomenologists like Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre without much of the philosophical abstraction that tends to characterize these philosophies.
Is hierarchy the inevitable result of human evolutionary biology? Is it a rational practical choice in the face of anarchy and chaos? Is it a distortion of natural human cooperation? Is it the inevitable consequence of population growth in a world of limited resources?
In Decmocracy in Business: A Transdisciplinary Critique of Hierarchy, Volume 1, G. Michael Blahnik argues that though there might exist a biological, psychological and social vulnerability for people to create hierarchies, there is not and never has been an innate disposition to do so. The disposition is learned. Blahnik argues that under pressures to survive, people are vulnerable to mistreating and being mistreated by their fellow human being. Such mistreatment will often produce the desired result, but that result is achieved at a price. That price is no less than a distortion of human identity.
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