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An excerpt from the book chapter: Being as the New Paradigm<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u201cThis idea of making inner development the center and goal of societies and politics has already been expressed in different ways. From a spiritual point of view, the Bah\u00e1\u2019i religion considers development an organic process in which \u201cthe spiritual is expressed and carried out in the material,\u201d and its prophet, Baha\u2019u\u2019llah, taught that societies should create a milieu favorable to the healthy growth of all their members, to the development of their spiritual qualities and virtues. Likewise, Confucius\u2019s essential teaching is for nations to support the cultivation of their members\u2019 virtues that are necessary both for social order and for each of them to become more fully human.<\/div>\n
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Sri Aurobindo wrote that \u201cthe radical defect of all our systems is their deficient development of just that which society has most neglected, the spiritual element, the soul in man which is his true being.\u201d He considered that human societies never really approached their development from an authentically spiritual perspective. \u201cIf we look at the old religions in their\u00a0social as apart from their individual aspect, we see that the use society made of them was only of their most unspiritual or at any rate of their less spiritual parts.\u201d He also believed that the largely failed endeavors to socialize spirituality and apply it to societies underline religions\u2019 incapacity for regenerating humankind. He believed, \u201cA society which was even initially spiritualized, would make the revealing and finding of the divine Self in man the supreme, even the guiding aim of all its activities, its education, its knowledge, its science, its ethics, its art, its economical and political structure.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This idea has also been very present in Western philosophy. For\u00a0example, Aristotle considered the purpose of the good state to be forging the virtues of its citizens, providing them the means for self-fulfillment.\u00a0More recently, French sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin, ninetynine years old as I write, has developed a similar viewpoint. […] According to him, \u201cThe gigantic planetary crisis is the crisis of mankind that does not manage to access humanity,\u201d as revealed by its inner underdevelopment. \u201cThere is above all the immaturity of nationstates, of minds, of consciousnesses, that is to say, fundamentally, mankind\u2019s immaturity to accomplish itself.\u201d As a humanist, Morin believes in a process of \u201chominization\u201d by which human beings could become more evolved and truly human. One of his books opens with a quote from German philosopher Friedrich Schlegel: \u201cTo attain humanity,\u00a0there is a need of a sense of beyond humanity.\u201d<\/div>\n
In 1965, in Introduction to a Politics of Human, Morin adopted a rather anthropological perspective to call for \u201ca politics of the whole human being.\u201d He called this \u201canthropolitics\u201d or \u201cpolitics of human,\u201d whose advent he considered natural, engraved in the very new (quoted by US president Truman in 1949) notion of \u201cdevelopment\u201d in politics. Morin predicted that \u201cmore and more, the nuclear center of politics would be the human to become in the world\u201d and that this anthropolitics should allow us to \u201cunify in one multidimensional politics all the fragments of politics.\u201d He recognized that since the French Revolution and during the last two centuries, politics has progressively extended its field of action from its initial focus on social order. It has included, on the one hand, all the aspects of social life (economics, health, education, demography, culture … ) and, on the other hand, philosophical problems related to the meaning of life (Marx\u2019s conception of politics as a way to fulfill philosophy, the French Revolution\u2019s recognition of happiness as the ultimate goal of politics, our contemporary search to fulfill human aspirations … ).<\/div>\n
This led Morin to conclude that \u201call the avenues of the living (from the \u2018surviving\u2019 to the \u2018is this how men live?\u2019) and all the avenues of politics are starting to cross themselves and announce an onto-politics, concerning in an increasing intimately and globally the being of human.\u201d Morin believes the current political crisis rests on the inability of politics to assume this endeavor. According to him, \u201cAn ideal of consumption, supermarkets, gains, productivity, GDP, cannot satisfy the deepest aspirations of a human being, which are to realize themselves as a person in a solidary community.\u201d Thus, \u201cthe development of human beings, of their mutual relations, of the societal being, is the purpose of the politics of human in the world, which calls for the pursuit of hominization.\u201d \u201cIt is about going on with the millenary search for consciousness, love, science, going on with these streams by making them converge.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An excerpt from the book chapter: Being as the New Paradigm \u201cThis idea of making inner development the center and goal of societies and politics has already been expressed in different ways. 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