Integral Polity : Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Prologue: An Introduction to Integral Polity: Nature, Culture, Society, Economy -- Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: Southern: Nature/Community: Earth: Direct Democracy -- Part 3: Eastern: Culture/Spirituality: Air: Big Picture -- Part 4: Northern: Society/Technology: Water: Interaction -- Part 5: Environment/Economics: Fire: Individuation -- Part 6: Integrally-Based Islamic Polity: Mandala as a Whole -- References -- I In Pursuit of Integrity -- 1 Disintegrated to Integral Polity -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Frames of State: Commonwealth to Leadership -- 1.3. Forms of State -- 1.4. Towards an Awakened Islamic Consciousness -- 1.5. Conclusion: Necessity of the State/Options of Governance -- 1.6. References -- 2 The Origins of Political Order -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The State of Nature -- 2.3. Social Community to Private Property -- 2.4. The Power of the State -- 2.5. The Rule of Law -- 2.6. The Rise of Political Accountability -- 2.7. Conclusion: Political Development Then and Now -- 2.8. References -- II Natural and Communal Orientation: Southern Polity -- 3 Natural Grounding: Constituting Africa -- 3.1. Introduction to Black Civilization -- 3.2. Towards an Original African Constitution -- 3.3. Conclusion: The Direction of Civilization -- 3.4. References -- 4 Natural Emergence: Tradition and Modernity -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Philosophy and Politics -- 4.3. Tradition and Modernity -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 4.5. References -- 5 Communal Navigation: Development and Auto-centricity -- 5.1. Introduction: Africa's General Crisis -- 5.2. The Nature of the Auto-centric Approach -- 5.3. Towards a Post-Cold War Global Order -- 5.4. Conclusion: Prospects for Auto-centric Development -- 5.5. References -- 6 Natural Rapoko Effect: Food Security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika.

6.1. Introduction: Towards an Integral African Polity -- 6.2. A Son Was Raised from the House of Gutu -- 6.3. Mai Mlambo: Towards a Democratic Community -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 6.5. References -- III Cultural and Spiritual Orientation: Eastern Polity -- 7 Spiritual Grounding: India's Human Cycle -- 7.1. Introduction: Nature/Community to Culture/Spirituality -- 7.2. The Human Cycle -- 7.3. The Discovery of the Nation-Soul -- 7.4. Conclusion: The Curve of the Rational Age -- 7.5. References -- 8 Cultural and Spiritual Emergence: Spiral Dynamics -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Comparison of Major Schools in Spiral Dynamic's Theory -- 8.3. Description of the Different Human Niches -- 8.4. Conclusion: Mandala Centre for Integral Development -- 8.5. References -- 9 Cultural, Political and Economic Navigation: Threefolding -- 9.1. Introduction: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity -- 9.2. The Social Question: Cultural, Political, Economic -- 9.3. Shaping Globalization -- 9.4. Threefolding and the Example of Philippine Agenda 21 -- 9.5. Conclusion: Civil Society and the Beginning of History -- 9.6. References -- 10 Conscious, Powerful, Economic Effect: Sri Lanka's Sarvodaya -- 10.1. Introduction to Sarvodaya -- 10.2. The Awakening of All -- 10.3. Conclusion -- 10.4. References -- IV Technological and Societal Orientation: Northern Polity -- 11 Social and Political Grounding: Europe Living in Truth -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Elements of the Social and Political System -- 11.3. Building on Nature and Culture -- 11.4. The Politics of Greed -- 11.5. Conclusion: The Sacred Geography of Europe -- 11.6. References -- 12 Emergent Innovation: Technology, Management, Aesthetics -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Knowledge and Innovation -- 12.3. Towards Integral Innovation -- 12.4. The Leadership of Innovation -- 12.5. Conclusion: The Gaian Point of View -- 12.6. References.

13 Navigation: Self-Management/Cooperative Association -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Cooperatives in the Age of Capital -- 13.3. Co-operation Italian Style -- 13.4. Conclusion: On Civil Society and the Social Economy -- 13.5. References -- 14 Social and Technical Effect: Integral Green Slovenia -- 14.1. Introduction: Living the Truth to Integral Green Slovenia -- 14.2. Tapping into Slovenia's Moral Core -- 14.3. Towards an Integral Green Slovenia -- 14.4. Conclusion -- 14.5. References -- V Economic and Environmental Orientation: Western Polity -- 15 Environmental and Economic Grounding: The American Soul -- 15.1. Introduction: Inner and Outer Grounding -- 15.2. Remembering America/Remembering Washington -- 15.3. Individuality: A Meditation on the Face of Lincoln -- 15.4. The American Indian: Crimes of America -- 15.5. Slavery, Frederick Douglass and the Story of America -- 15.6. Conclusion: The Meaning of America -- 15.7. References -- 16 Natural, Cultural, Social, Economic Emergence: Future Primal -- 16.1. Introduction -- 16.2. The Eclipse of Wisdom -- 16.3. The Primal Political Mandala -- 16.4. Conclusion -- 16.5. References -- 17 Political and Environmental Navigation: Politics of Nature -- 17.1. Introduction -- 17.2. How to Bring the Natural-Political Collective Together? -- 17.3. Devising a New Separation of Powers -- 17.4. Variegated Skills for the Collective -- 17.5. Conclusion: Exploring the Common Worlds of Oikos -- 17.6. References -- 18 Economic and Environmental Effect: Brazil's Curitiba -- 18.1. Introduction: Soul of America to Curitiba -- 18.2. Treating Citizens as a Precious Resource -- 18.3. Conclusion: Bio/mimicry - Design Working with Nature -- 18.4. References -- VI Nature, Culture, Society and Economy: Centring Polity -- 19 Integral Ground: Holy Qur'an: Start Sustainable Development -- 19.1. Introduction.

19.2. By Way of Tradition -- 19.3. Themes and Concepts -- 19.4. Contemporary Topics -- 19.5. Power and Politics: Medina's Participatory Democracy -- 19.6. Conclusion -- 19.7. References -- 20 Emergent Integral: Harmony: Sustainable Development Anew -- 20.1. Introduction -- 20.2. The Golden Thread: Wisdom of the Ancients -- 20.3. Which Natural and Cultural Grammar Do We Follow? -- 20.4. Conclusion -- 20.5. References -- 21 Integral Navigation: The Potential of the Arab Spring -- 21.1. Introduction -- 21.2. Cornerstones of Egypt's History -- 21.3. The Dynamics of the Egyptian Revolution -- 21.4. A True Arab Awakening? -- 21.5. Islam and Sustainable Development -- 21.6. Conclusion: Where Arab Spring and Integral Polity Fail to Meet -- 21.7. References -- 22 Integral Effect: Sekem - Integral Sustainable Development -- 22.1. Introduction: Towards an Integral Centred Polity -- 22.2. Reformative Young Adulthood: Emergent Foundation -- 22.3. Newly Normative Midlife: Emancipatory Navigation -- 22.4. Transformative Maturity: Effecting Transformation -- 22.5. Conclusion -- 22.6. References -- Epilogue -- Index.

Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century - and Integral Polity applies this notion to business, economics and enterprise. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease on life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt realm of the political.

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