By Love Alone
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Daniel Hickman
Lenses of Moral Reasoning: A Spiral Dynamics Approach
Why should one thing should be done (or seen as moral/good) over another?
Through the Spiral Dynamics framework, we discover a psycho-social progression of how morality is understood — through 8 different lenses: Self-Preservation, Familiar-Convention, Desire-Happiness, Absolute-Law, Nuanced-Context, Subjective-Relation, Yes-And, and Lived-Participation.
The Spiral Dynamics of Human Needs
Humans are complex creatures with many layers of needs, and these needs can be understood through the Spiral!
Each section has questions to help us consider which of our needs are being met?
Spiral Dynamics: A Framework for Everything
Spiral Dynamics is a development model which provides a language for understanding human (individual) and societal (collective) development, across many domains such as education, conflict resolution, political systems, value-systems, human needs, and much more!
Reflections on Dialectical Thinking
“Dialectical thinking” is a way of thinking in which 2 opposing perspectives/ideas are in “dialogue” with each other and truth emerges from the interaction between the two. It’s a paradoxical way of thinking, with sees truth in both extremes. Rather than striving for an “either/or,” it generously accepts a “both/and.”
…Dialectical thinking requires the ability to accept and trust the mystery… all the cosmos is made out of diversity in unity — out of the paradox of Love which makes life, and emergence, possible!