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Updates March 2024: Featured Essay on “Story as a First Principle and First Value of Reality”
Opening the Eye of Value During the Meta-Crisis The New Parallax Course on the First Principles Book Starts April 6, 2024! The 4-week course on the new book First Principles and First Values. Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come, starts this week! This 4-week course is offered by philosopher and co-author Zak Stein in collaboration with Parallax. In the first week Dr. Marc Gafni will join Zak Stein in discussing the major themes of CosmoErotic Humanism. Learn More and Register for This Course As the meta-crisis deepens, the fate of civilization [...]
Story as a First Principle and First Value of Reality
By Dr. Marc Gafni  This is an early draft of an essay, written by Dr. Marc Gafni. It is part of Volume Two of a forthcoming six-volume book series, The Universe: A Love Story, by Dr. Marc Gafni & Dr. Zachary Stein with Barbara Marx Hubbard. The essay was edited and prepared for publication by Kerstin Tuschik. We welcome substantive feedback as we prepare a more advanced version of this essay. Download a PDF of this Essay We often speak of three great questions of CosmoErotic Humanism. The first is Who—as in Who [...]
Introduction from the New Book on “First Principles & First Values”
Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come by David J. Temple CosmoErotic Humanism is a philosophical movement aimed at reconstructing the collapse of value at the core of global culture. This movement emerges in response to the meta-crisis, understanding existential and catastrophic risks as rooted not only in failures of economics, politics, and technology, but in failed worldviews. The core of CosmoErotic Humanism is a system of First Principles and First Values that recasts cosmic evolution as a Story of Value in which humanity plays a unique role. These First Principles and First [...]