1 Contents Introduction 1 Introducing an idea to better understand our worlds and their peoples 2 The Vision 3 The Benefits 4 Collaborating Involves Group Explorations 4.1 What is Comprehensivity? 5 A New Tradition of Inquiry and Action 6 An idea to unify the world 6.1 How it works 7 Why It Works 8 Collaborating for Comprehensivity Integrates People, Ideas, and Action 8.1 How To Get Started 8.2 Spontaneous Organizing 8.3 Note on the Accessible Design of Our Resources 1 Humanity’s Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action 1.1 Cataloguing Humanity’s Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action 1.2 Exploring Humanity’s Great Traditions 1.3 Addendum 2 The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism 2.1 The Necessities of Comprehensivism 2.2 1. What way or ways of knowing ought a human being practice? What is the proper way of knowing? That is, what approach to learning or epistemology ought we practice? 2.3 2. What way or ways of acting in the world ought a human being practice? What is the proper way of acting in the world? 2.4 3. Let’s consider this quote from R. Buckminster Fuller’s book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth: 2.5 The Impossibilities of Comprehensivism 2.6 Implications for the Practice of Comprehensivity 2.7 Addendum 3 The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives 3.1 Is Story Fundamental in Our Lives? 3.2 What is the Role of Story in Our Lives? 4 The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller 4.1 Comprehensive Thinking 4.2 Regenerative Evolution of Spaceship Earth 4.3 Comprehensivism: Putting Bucky’s Comprehensive Thinking in Context 5 The Value of The Ethnosphere 5.1 The Value of Other Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Being 5.2 Comprehensivism and the Ethnosphere 5.3 Expanding Our Resource Center 6 The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses 6.1 The Moral Reform of Multiple Working Hypotheses 6.2 Multiple Working Hypotheses and Comprehensivism 7 The Inductive Attitude: A Moral Basis for Science and Comprehensivism 7.1 Induction as The Moral Basis of Science 7.2 The Inductive Attitude and Comprehensivism 7.3 Reading about Induction in Pólya 8 Mistake Mystique in Learning and in Life 8.1 The Value of Mistake Mystique 8.2 The Role of Ignorance 8.3 A Theory of Learning for Comprehensivity 9 Rethinking Change and Evolution: Is Genesis Ongoing? 9.1 Three Exhibits on Change and Evolution 9.1.1 Exhibit A: The Everywhen of The Dreaming 9.1.2 Exhibit B: Living In The Moment with the Pirahã 9.1.3 Exhibit C: ‘‘Genesis is Ongoing’’ 9.2 Two More Exhibits on Change and Evolution 9.2.1 Exhibit D: Richard Lewontin’s Evolutionary Thinking 9.2.2 Exhibit E: A Four-Tier Hierarchy of Change 9.3 The Curatorial Approach to Comprehensivity 10 How to Create That-Which-Is-Not-Yet 10.1 The Fundamental Role of Design 10.2 The Fundamental Role of Desire 10.3 The Fundamental Role of Intention 10.4 Conclusion 11 How To Explore The Future (and Why) 11.1 What is The Future? 11.2 How Should We Explore The Future? 11.3 A Survey of Perspectives on Change 12 Redressing The Crises of Ignorance 12.1 The First Crisis of Ignorance: Mistake Mystique 12.2 The Second Crisis of Ignorance: the Hypostasis of Knowledge 12.3 The Third Crisis of Ignorance: Generalized Principles 12.4 The Fourth Crisis of Ignorance: Education Automation 12.5 The Importance of Our Comprehensivity 13 Comprehensivism in the Islamic Golden Age 13.1 The Origins of Islamic Comprehensivism in The Translation Movement 13.2 Science in the Islamic Golden Age 13.3 The Historical Roots of Comprehensivism 14 Shifting Perspectives and Representing The Truth 14.1 Representing the Truth 14.2 Perspective Shifting 14.3 The Truth and our Comprehensivity 15 The Whole Shebang: ‘‘to understand all and put everything together’’ 15.1 Starting with Universe 15.2 How Wholes Become Meanings 15.3 The Output of Comprehensive Initiatives 15.4 The Whole Shebang 16 Chronofiles: Data Mining Your Life for Comprehensive Thinking 16.1 A Chronofile to Document Your Life as a Case History 16.2 The Omni-Integrity of Universe 16.3 Chronofiles and Integrity in Comprehensive Exploration 17 Dante’s Comedìa and Our Comprehensivity 17.1 Assessing Dante’s Contribution 17.2 The Virtues of Comprehensivity in the Comedìa 17.3 The Value of the Comedìa for Comprehensive Practice 18 The Ethics of Learning from Experience 18.1 Beginning with All Humanity’s Experience 18.2 The Ethics of Empiricism 18.3 The Ethics of Comprehensive Practice 19 Comprehensive Exploration, Comprehension, and Collaboration 19.1 10 Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Learning 19.2 The Three Sisters Garden Metaphor of Barbara Wall 19.3 The Four Sets Schema in The Design Way 19.4 Developing Our Comprehensive Practice 20 Tools for Comprehensivity: Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox 20.1 Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox 20.2 Ideas, Great Ideas, and Truth 20.3 Ambiguity and Comprehensive Learning 21 Articulating Comprehensivity: The Comprehensive Design of Our Lives 21.1 Articulating Comprehensivity 21.2 Initiative-Taking, Profession, Mission, and Vision 21.3 The Comprehensive Design of Our Lives 22 What Is Comprehensive Learning? 22.1 How does comprehensive learning compare to other ways of learning? 22.2 How does comprehensive learning compare to other ways of life? 22.3 Conclusion 23 The Measurements of Life (Tools for Comprehensivity) 23.1 The Interpretation of Experience, Information, and Data 23.2 The Measurements of Life 23.3 The Measurements of Life for Our Comprehensivity 24 Measuring Beliefs 24.1 Assessing Beliefs 24.2 Measuring Our Comprehensivity 24.3 The Vital Role of Measurement in our Comprehensivity 25 The Standard for All Measurements: Our Judgment 25.1 The Nature of Measurement 25.2 Comprehensive Measurement 25.3 Comprehensive Measurement, Judgment, and Our Comprehensivity 26 Intellectual Virtues for Comprehensive Practice 26.1 Intellectual Virtues 26.2 Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Practice 26.3 16 Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Practice 26.4 Nine Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Exploration 26.5 Five Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Comprehension 26.6 Two Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Collaboration 26.7 Virtues and our Comprehensivity Video Companion Playlist List of Figures List of Tables Bibliography 2Note: This material in this book reproduces essays of CJ Fearnley published at https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/. The introduction appears at this url. The 26 Resource Center essays are at https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/resource-center/. 3
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