Di Shearer

Hello, Noha,

Just finding time to reconnect on this Topic. Wonder whether you are still receiving messages this way. Do be in touch if you are.

Thanks,
Di

Hello, Denise,

Just finding time to reconnect on this Topic. Wonder whether you are still receiving messages this way. Do be in touch if you are.

Thanks,
Di

Hello, Bernice,

Just finding time to reconnect on this Topic. Wonder whether you are still receiving messages this way. Do be in touch if you are.

Thanks,
Di

Hello, Brian,

Just finding time to reconnect on this Topic. Wonder whether you are still receiving messages this way. Do be in touch if you are.

Thanks,
Di

Hi Noha, after so long in this site. I’m fascinated with the above conversation, most of which I have forgotten. Especially the 40 values bit. I might re-read all this and see whether anyone is interested to pick up the thread again. Or perhaps start a new discussion. 🐿

HI Orla, thanks so much for this link to ‘worldbeforeher’. I have purchased the film and will watch with great interest. Also the document introducing the film and the helpful study guide/questions. I grew up in conservative contexts (Christian) in a relatively poor family. Through life experience in Malaysia among indigenous peoples and…[Read more]

One is epistemological (what we know of the other),
the other axiological (study of value, ethics/aesthetics), &
the third is praxiological (rapprochement or distancing oneself from the other in one’s actions).

I found this sentence in your text very helpful, Noha – adding a brief sense of what axiological means.

To translate this into d…[Read more]

Just wondering Oria whether you are referring to the work of Ken Wilber when you use the word ‘integral’?

HIs is an all embracing theory of everything – but it remains far too philosophical. He pits the individual against the collective, and the interior against the exterior – so making four quadrants, then you can consider the interior…[Read more]

HI Noha,

Regarding the 40 values you enquired about, I’m spending contemplative time considering how I model this value (or otherwise) to children. So, for example, today’s value is ‘generosity’ and ‘sharing’. I’ve tried to picture myself being with a child who isn’t willing to share a toy or a sweet – and how I might cultivate this value in…[Read more]

Thanks, Noha, for waking us up to this conversation again. I’ve enjoyed re-reading it. I’m also aware of your special interest in the raising of children without cultural or religious bias. I like the short-hand ‘ideo-theo’ – says so much.

My one response is that I’ve always tried to link new knowledge with ‘tradition’ in some sense. Almost…[Read more]

Thanks, Noha. The words l love most in your post are these:
“that children’s innate orientations are already originally directed toward adopting such positive attitudes as compassion & oneness”
and I’m sure a Ph D on this topic is well overdue. Hopefully the door will open to you. I’ve witnessed European children growing up in an indigenous c…[Read more]

Thank you, Joyce. Your work is amazing! I can see ways to share this with my Everyday Philosophy group and hope I can meet the permission requirements.

Thanks, everyone for your posts. I wonder whether some would use the word ‘compassion’ – experiencing and feeling together with – to ‘trump’ ‘tolerance’. It’s true that children are usually better at accepting difference than adults who have somehow formed a concreteness that doesn’t allow entry of the other who is different. So for the…[Read more]

In my work with adults in intercultural communication contexts, I have seldom been content with ‘tolerance’ as a disposition. It’s has a negative odour rather than the positive ones which words like ’empathy’, ‘patience’, ‘approval’ bring into focus. I guess too that ‘intolerance’ is a milder form of saying one is ‘prejudiced’ or…[Read more]

Yes, Brian, I’ve done the first three of the specialisation and am waiting for the fourth in the series which I anticipate for later in January. Meanwhile … now to read Living Cosmology: Christian Responses to the JOU. My copy arrived today. Let’s keep talking.

Please say more about the Jung and Teihard interweaving … if you can spare the…[Read more]

Hi Brian, not sure how I missed this post but tonight I’m back on line wanting to review the Big History Q&A. Feeling somewhat overwhelmed from doing the MOOC from Macquarie Uni. It ends with a fairly negative sense of the dissipation of all things. A good dose of Teilhard side by side with Jung would be a good tonic just now. Yes the…[Read more]