Parallax Newsletter #100
Starts Tomorrow! 4 Saturdays in April with Dr. Zak Stein
Course: Opening the Eye of Value During The Meta-Crisis (With Zak Stein)
“Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.”
SATURDAYS APRIL 6/13/20/27 2024
As the meta-crisis deepens, the fate of civilization and humanity hangs in the balance.
First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.
Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.
David J. Temple is a fictional personality created for enabling ongoing collaborative authorship at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. The two primary authors behind David J. Temple are Marc Gafni and Zak Stein. For different projects specific writers will be named as be part of the collaboration.
In his new book, First Principles and First Values, David J Temple has argued that the collapse of value at the heart of global culture is the root cause of proliferating Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks making up the Metacrisis. Exploring the truth of this suggests that radical educational innovation is needed to (re)align humans with the Universal Field of Cosmic Value. Essential to the survival of humanity is the capacity to engage the "eye of value"—the human ability to perceive intrinsic value. The question of what kinds of capacities are needed for humanity to navigate planetary meta-crisis reframes our debates. Concrete recommendations and ongoing projects are discussed in the context of the imminent planetary catastrophe, largely driven by the incapacitation—the blinding—of the eye of value.
Read more and register for this 4-week course "Opening the Eye of Value During the Meta-Crisis."
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Zak Stein is a impressive individual, and we're very much looking forward to the new book and his presentations! Very glad this is happening at Parallax.