Embracing cosmos - yes - but not merely that of the god particle worldview

The Conversation
28 June 2012,

Challenge 15: Let’s get ethical; embracing the cosmos leads to better decision-making

Edward Spence
Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University

http://theconversation.edu.au/challenge-15-lets-get-ethical-embracing-the-cosmos-leads-to-better-decision-making-7460

My associated google docs contribution on the issue of monotheism and genocide (in connection with a new cosmopolitarianism and a single language.)

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5L1WtKuhKjEZnZlcERqSlhQSWs


Bruce
July 2012

PS This may also be relevant - have not read it as yet.
:

1. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers
   http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642520903091217

Being and Cosmos

In this blog i will add some thoughts on reconnecting Being and Cosmos using insights i have acquired from both Western and indigneous Australian sources.

Reconnecting our Being with Cosmos is a healing challenge.

At present i am writing "Becoming Otherwise" about the need to end ethnocide - and will post my initial materials here for comment and feedback.

From my former anthropological teacher, Prof Jan Pouwer, i learnt much about the importance of complementary opposition as a useful tool for looking a life - an inclusive both-and healing approach in comparison to the exclusive either/or divisive logic which is part of the self-styled "age of reason'.

From Warumungu/Alyawarrea senior men i learnt the need to try to get non-indigenous Australians (and others) to understand their true surroundings.

My other blogs include one on Cosmology (in the wider sense).

Lately, as part of the Darwin 200 celebration, i have been writing about Darwin, naturalism and related matters. See http://songlinesoz.spaces.live.com/

And, as part of a peoples well-being movement, Songlines htpp://www.songlines.org.au

cheers

Bruce
22 may 2009