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''Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution'' is integral philosopher Ken Wilber's 1995 magnum opus. Wilber intended it to be the first volume of a series called ''The Kosmos Trilogy'', but subsequent volumes were never produced. The scholarly work comprises 850 pages, including 270 pages of notes. The German edition of ''Sex, Ecology, Spirituality'' was entitled ''Eros, Kosmos, Logos: Eine Jahrtausend-Vision'' ("A Millennium-vision"). The book has been both highly acclaimed by some authors and harshly criticized by others. ==Content== Published in 1995, ''SES'' (as it is sometimes abbreviated) is a work in which Wilber grapples with modern philosophical naturalism, attempting to show its insufficiency as an explanation of being, evolution, and the meaning of life. He also describes an approach, called vision-logic, which he finds qualified to succeed modernism. Wilber's project in this book requires nothing less than a complete re-visioning of the history of Eastern and Western thought. There are four philosophers that Wilber finds to be of the highest importance: : *Plotinus, Neo-Platonic philosopher, who introduced the first nondual philosophy to the West : *Nagarjuna, Buddhist philosopher, who did the same in the East : *Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, German Idealist who created the first ''evolutionary'' nondual philosophy in the West and : * Sri Aurobindo, Hindu yogi and philosopher who did the same in the East Wilber argues that the account of existence presented by the Enlightenment is incomplete—it ignores the spiritual and noetic components of existence. He accordingly avoids the term ''cosmos'', which is associated with merely physical existence. He prefers the term ''kosmos'' to refer to the sum of manifest existence, which harks back to the usage of the term by the Pythagoreans and other ancient mystics. Wilber conceives of the Kosmos as consisting of several concentric spheres: matter (the physical universe) plus life (the vital realm) plus mind (the mental realm) plus soul (the psychic realm) plus Spirit (the spiritual realm). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sex, Ecology, Spirituality」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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