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Welcome to this Philosophy Tree. Such a wide range is covered, it will need "pruning" from time to time by adding sub-branches ... for example, Eastern & Western branches, classical & modern, the various schools of philosophy will need to be separated out.

Feel free to make such collections and unite them under a new "sub-tree". Thanks for your help growing this topic! Everyday Philosophy from Prospect Magazine. Justice with Michael Sandel - Online Harvard Course Exploring Justice, Equality, Democracy, and Citizenship. Video Lectures 2010.

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Immaterialism. George Berkeley is credited with the development of subjective idealism. Subjective idealism is a fusion of phenomenalism or empiricism, which confers special status upon the immediately perceived, with idealism, which confers special status upon the mental. Idealism denies the knowability or existence of the non-mental, while phenomenalism serves to restrict the mental to the empirical. Subjective idealism thus identifies its mental reality with the world of ordinary experience, rather than appealing to the unitary world-spirit of pantheism or absolute idealism. This form of idealism is "subjective" not because it denies that there is an objective reality, but because it asserts that this reality is completely dependent upon the minds of the subjects that perceive it. The earliest thinkers identifiable as subjective idealists were certain members of the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism, who reduced the world of experience to a stream of subjective perceptions.

History[edit] Spiral Dynamics Integral - Dr Don Beck. Don Edward Beck, Ph. D. Debates over globalization are but the surface-level collisions of the deeper tectonic plate-like cultural fault lines that remain hidden from view. The failure to both understand and deal with these evolutionary core value systems result in needless clashes over worldviews, constant threats of "us" vs. "them" or class-based violence, and expensive, politicized solutions that are both inappropriate and ineffectual. The WTO debates and conflicts in Seattle exposed these fault-lines. But where are the integral, cohesive principles and processes that can bridge over the great, global divides? Who can untie the global knot? Quo Vadis, Humanity? In this post Cold War and postmodern age, we are asking serious questions regarding the preeminence of rigid ideologies, national boundaries, proprietary interests, technological utopias and naive, egalitarian demands in crafting the next global mesh.

But, why haven't these policies worked in the past? Here's the key idea. Philosophy. Philosophy. Continental Philosophy.