
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.

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!