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Integral Praxiology: Justification Considerations

2008-06-30T06:04:00-07:00

Daniel O'Connor | Integral Ventures, LLC Continued from Integral Praxiology: Integral Practices How exactly does one justify the thesis that a specific set of perspectives, practices, and propositions, however counterfactual it may appear in people’s worldly action, is nevertheless always already essential for their worldly action and, therefore, represents an integral knowledge possessed by all people, regardless of the extent to which they realize it? Appeals to authority or popularity simply will not suffice, for they are logical fallacies of the highest order and ironically supportive of the thesis they might seek to quickly dismiss. Beyond the demonstrative justification of...

Integral Praxiology: Integral Practices

2008-06-30T06:02:00-07:00

Daniel O'Connor | Integral Ventures, LLC Continued from Integral Praxiology: Integral Perspectives Having thus clarified what essential perspectives must be pre-supposed by people in order for them to act in any situation, I now turn to the second portion of the inquiry concerned with the essential practices that constitute such action. If my interest was limited to framing an integral meta-theory with the capacity to describe human action in its many forms, then Triadic Quadratic Perspectivism would suffice. But the conditions that must be pre-supposed by people in order for them to act in any situation must be more than...

Integral Praxiology: Integral Perspectives

2008-06-30T06:01:00-07:00

Daniel O'Connor | Integral Ventures, LLC Continued from Integral Praxiology: Introduction Inspired in part by Wilber’s (2007) recent proposals regarding Integral Perspectivism, my first proposal is to consider that action can only be understood from some perspective and that this leads to a worthwhile inquiry into what perspectives are possible and, furthermore, what perspectives are truly universal to all action. In other words, what perspectives must be pre-supposed by people in order for them to act in any situation? The first part of my answer is based on my interpretation of Jürgen Habermas’s (1979, 1984, 1987, 1992) Formal Pragmatics, which...

Integral Praxiology: Introduction

2008-06-30T06:00:00-07:00

Daniel O'Connor | Integral Ventures, LLC Integral Praxiology is an inquiry into the possibility of an integral science of human action. My approach to the study of human action is a form of integral reconstruction. As a reconstruction, my intent is to clarify and formalize the tacit knowledge and intuitive competencies that must, logically, be pre-supposed by people in order for them to act in any situation. In other words, I am attempting to make theoretically explicit those pre-theoretical perspectives, practices, and propositions that appear, on very close examination, to be governing the actions of people in the full variety...

Hello Again

2008-06-29T17:41:09-07:00

Daniel O'Connor | Integral Ventures, LLC It's been a long hiatus here at Catallaxis due to some major personal and professional commitments of a more fundamental nature. I appreciate all the inquiries I've received over these countless months regarding if and when I might be returning. I've been reluctant to make any such commitments, though now I will say that I'm really looking forward to beginning regular writing in the coming months. As a way of re-launching Catallaxis, I'll be publishing in the interim some fairly long articles that present a more complete version of the integral market theory I...