Van: Integral World [newsletter@integralworld.net] Verzonden: zondag 3 januari 2010 23:35 Aan: f.visser3@chello.nl Onderwerp: [personal] On Pakistan INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 307 Amsterdam, January 3rd, 2010 TRANSCENDING COMPLEXITY AND THE PAKISTANI BOMB - Jeff Meyerhoff Gregory Desilet has two main criticisms of my response "The Personal, the Political and the Integral" to Elliot Benjamin's initial defense of President Obama's recently announced increase of US troops in Afghanistan. First, he says I don't appreciate that the complexity of the situation requires that I and others be more cautious and less certain in our views. And second, I do not consider the dire consequences for the US were the Pakistani government to be overthrown by Islamic fundamentalists who would then have control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff12.html A REFINED QUADRANT SYSTEM - Henry Augustine The current quadrant system consists of the seemingly ethereal “dual duality” between what is “individual” and “collective” and what is “interior” and “exterior.” Geometrically speaking, this particular model is quite necessary, but is also – as we will now see – rather insufficient. In this essay, first we will examine the notion of holons as far as what a holon is and why it is of the utmost import (and thus for the quadrant system). Next, we will consider a modification on the notions of individual and collective, and finally, we will do the same for the notions of interior and exterior, relative to the quadrant system. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/augustine16.html A ADDTHIS button has been placed at the top-left of the homepage, so you can send this site to your social neworks friends easily. If you know other people interested in this Integral World Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php