The American integral philosopher

Philosophy

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 Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber

Kenneth Earl Wilber II is an American author who has written about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and developmental psychology. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory. In 1998, he founded the Integral Institute, for teaching and applications of Integral theory.-Biography:Ken Wilber was...

 uses the term worldcentric to describe an advanced stage of ethical

Ethics

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 development. Synonyms of worldcentric include global and planetary

Planetary

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. At the worldcentric ethical stage, the subject is concerned with the welfare of all human

Human

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 beings. Wilber also sometimes refers to an ethical stage that is beyond the worldcentric, which he calls kosmocentric. Wilber used to associate these advanced ethical stages with mystical

Mysticism

Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...

 states, but since 2002 he has associated these advanced ethical stages with the development of complexity in the self-related lines of identity, studied by Susanne Cook-Greuter. (See "Integral Spirituality," Ken Wilber; See also "Transcendence and Mature Thought in Adulthood," Susanne Cook-Greuter.)

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