Integral politics - Definition and Overview

An emerging approach to politics that is based on developmental and holistic approaches to the self, culture, and society.

Integral politics takes what Ken Wilber calls an all quadrant, all levels approach to understanding politics. All quadrants refers to the importance of understanding the interplay between subjective (the self), intersubjective (culture), objective (physiology and behavior) and interobjective (systems, including ecosystems, society, and institutions) realities, which are all valid and cannot be reduced to one another. All levels emphasizes integral politics' developmental perspective, which holds that people, culture, and society develop through successive stages. Stages of psychological development, like the stages of moral development articulated by Lawrence Kohlberg and of cognitive development identified by neo-Piagetian theorists (after Jean Piaget), like Robert Kegan and Michael Commons, are mirrored by stages of intersubjective or cultural development, like those identified in Spiral Dynamics. Institutions, like governmental and economic systems, often embody the prevailing cultural values in a society; as intersubjective values evolve, they influence the development of societal institutions.

External links

• Integral Politics Website (http://noosphere.cc/integralpolitics.html/The)
• Integral Institute (http://www.integralinstitute.org/)
• Integral Naked (http://www.integralnaked.org/)
• Shambhala Publications' Ken Wilber site (http://wilber.shambhala.com/)
• Explores theories of everything (http://www.integralworld.net/)
• Project (start: March ´04, end: ´14) aimed at using Integral perspective to make 100 ´Leadergraphies´ ( Mandela, King, Gandhi, etc)  (http://web.hec.ca/leadergraphies/).