LEADER 05288nam 22007573u 450 001 9910159427403321 005 20230801233806.0 010 $a1-59079-248-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000285571 035 $a(EBL)1845332 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001643847 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16407745 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001643847 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13217758 035 $a(PQKB)10201640 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6976726 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6976726 035 $a(OCoLC)969442331 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000285571 100 $a20141124d2012|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEvolution's Purpose $eAn Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCork $cBookBaby$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (486 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-59079-220-3 327 $aFront Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Role of Philosophy; Where I Stand; The Evolution of Worldviews; Overview of the Chapters; 1 The New Picture of Evolution; Defining Evolution; Emergence and Transcendence; What Causes Emergence?; The Evolution of Consciousness; Developmental Psychology; 2 Necessary Metaphysics for an Evolutionary Worldview; The Evolution of Metaphysics; How Metaphysics Is Used in the Science of Evolution; Toward a More Adequate Form of Evolutionary Metaphysics; The Influence of Information on Evolution 327 $aThe Self-Organization ParadigmAdaptive Mutation; Morphic Resonance; Intelligent Design; The Influence of Value on Evolution; Values and Agency; Values and Free Will; The Evolution of Values; 3 Eros-Value Gravity; The Reality of Values; Moral Realism; Values as Evolutionary Attractors; Values as Relational Structures; The Gravity of Disvalues; The Sovereignty of the Good; Evolution's Dialectical Pattern; 4 Primary Values-Beauty, Truth, and Goodness; The Philosophical Pedigree of the Primary Values; The Dialectical Relationship of the Beautiful, the True, and the Good 327 $aThe Teleology of Beauty, Truth, and GoodnessBeauty, Truth, and Goodness-Perfectly Minimal Evolutionary Metaphysics; 5 Evolutionary Progress in Human History; The Idea of Progress; The Dialectic of Progress and Pathology; Elements of Progress; Value Relativism; Sources of Moral Authority; A New Definition of Social and Cultural Progress; Justifying Claims for Cultural Evolution; 6 Evolutionary Progress in Nature; Progress in Biological Evolution Overall; Measuring Directionality in Biological Evolution; Progress and Prejudice; The Value of Wholes and Parts; Biocentric Egalitarianism 327 $aAnthropocentrism and the Value of the NoosphereProgress in Cosmological Evolution; Progress and Teleology; 7 Purpose in Evolution; The Experience of Purpose; Evidence for Purpose in Evolution; Purpose in the Pattern-Evolution's Generation of Value; The Rising Flow of Creativity; Parallels Between Personal and Universal Development; Consideration of the Purpose of the Whole; Instrumental Purpose; Intrinsic Purpose; Purpose and Dialectical Synthesis; The Purpose of Suffering; 8 Spiritual Reflections on Evolution's Purpose; A Dialectical Thesis of Experiential Perfection through Evolution 327 $aTen Tenets of Evolutionary TheologyDiscussion of the Ten Tenets; Last Thoughts on the First Cause; 9 The Promise of a New Evolutionary Worldview; The Evolutionary Authenticity of the Postmodern Worldview; Next Steps for Cultural Evolution; Elements of an Evolutionary Worldview; A New Ontology; A New Epistemology; A New Set of Values; A Second Enlightenment; Value Dynamics within Cultural Evolution; Values as a Leading Line of Development; The Internal Cultural Ecosystem; The "Holarchic Principle" of Cultural Evolution; Evolutionary Politics; Near-Term Goals; Long-Term Goals 327 $aEvolutionary Spirituality 330 $a Does the science of evolution really prove that life, humanity, and the universe as a whole are meaningless accidents? On the contrary, as science has increasingly shown how everything in the universe is subject to evolution-including matter, life, and human culture-these very facts reveal that the process of evolution is unmistakably progressive. 517 $aEvolution's Purpose 606 $aEvolution$xOrigin 606 $aCosmogony 606 $aCosmology 606 $aEvolution (Biology) 606 $aHuman evolution 606 $aEvolutionary psychology 606 $aHuman beings 606 $aPhilosophy$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 615 0$aEvolution$xOrigin. 615 0$aCosmogony. 615 0$aCosmology. 615 0$aEvolution (Biology) 615 0$aHuman evolution. 615 0$aEvolutionary psychology. 615 0$aHuman beings. 615 7$aPhilosophy 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 676 $a116 700 $aMcIntosh$b Steve$01222763 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910159427403321 996 $aEvolution's Purpose$92836527 997 $aUNINA