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 Resources1 Humanity’s Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action1.1 Cataloguing Humanity’s Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action1.2 Exploring Humanity’s Great Traditions1.3 Addendum2 The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism2.1 The Necessities of Comprehensivism2.2 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 Comprehensivism2.6 Implications for the Practice of Comprehensivity2.7 Addendum3 The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives3.1 Is Story Fundamental in Our Lives?3.2 What is the Role of Story in Our Lives?4 The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller4.1 Comprehensive Thinking4.2 Regenerative Evolution of Spaceship Earth4.3 Comprehensivism: Putting Bucky’s Comprehensive Thinking in Context5 The Value of The Ethnosphere5.1 The Value of Other Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Being5.2 Comprehensivism and the Ethnosphere5.2.1 Sources for Comprehensivist Learning5.3 Expanding Our Resource Center6 The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses6.1 The Moral Reform of Multiple Working Hypotheses6.2 Multiple Working Hypotheses and Comprehensivism7 The Inductive Attitude: A Moral Basis for Science and Comprehensivism7.1 Induction as The Moral Basis of Science7.2 The Inductive Attitude and Comprehensivism7.3 Reading about Induction in Pólya8 Mistake Mystique in Learning and in Life8.1 The Value of Mistake Mystique8.2 The Role of Ignorance8.3 A Theory of Learning for Comprehensivity9 Rethinking Change and Evolution: Is Genesis Ongoing?9.1 Three Exhibits on Change and Evolution9.1.1 Exhibit A: The Everywhen of The Dreaming9.1.2 Exhibit B: Living In The Moment with the Pirahã9.1.3 Exhibit C: “Genesis is Ongoing”9.2 Two More Exhibits on Change and Evolution9.2.1 Exhibit D: Richard Lewontin’s Evolutionary Thinking9.2.2 Exhibit E: A Four-Tier Hierarchy of Change9.3 The Curatorial Approach to Comprehensivity10 How to Create That-Which-Is-Not-Yet10.1 The Fundamental Role of Design10.2 The Fundamental Role of Desire10.3 The Fundamental Role of Intention10.4 Conclusion11 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 Change12 Redressing The Crises of Ignorance12.1 The First Crisis of Ignorance: Mistake Mystique12.2 The Second Crisis of Ignorance: the Hypostasis of Knowledge12.3 The Third Crisis of Ignorance: Generalized Principles12.4 The Fourth Crisis of Ignorance: Education Automation12.5 The Importance of Our Comprehensivity13 Comprehensivism in the Islamic Golden Age13.1 The Origins of Islamic Comprehensivism in The Translation Movement13.2 Science in the Islamic Golden Age13.3 The Historical Roots of Comprehensivism14 Shifting Perspectives and Representing The Truth14.1 Representing the Truth14.2 Perspective Shifting14.3 The Truth and our Comprehensivity15 The Whole Shebang: “to understand all and put everything together”15.1 Starting with Universe15.2 How Wholes Become Meanings15.3 The Output of Comprehensive Initiatives15.4 The Whole Shebang16 Chronofiles: Data Mining Your Life for Comprehensive Thinking16.1 A Chronofile to Document Your Life as a Case History16.2 The Omni-Integrity of Universe16.3 Chronofiles and Integrity in Comprehensive Exploration17 Dante’s Comedìa and Our Comprehensivity17.1 Assessing Dante’s Contribution17.2 The Virtues of Comprehensivity in the Comedìa17.3 The Value of the Comedìa for Comprehensive Practice18 The Ethics of Learning from Experience18.1 Beginning with All Humanity’s Experience18.2 The Ethics of Empiricism18.3 The Ethics of Comprehensive Practice19 Comprehensive Exploration, Comprehension, and Collaboration19.1 10 Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Learning19.2 The Three Sisters Garden Metaphor of Barbara Wall19.3 The Four Sets Schema in The Design Way19.4 Developing Our Comprehensive Practice20 Tools for Comprehensivity: Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox20.1 Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox20.2 Ideas, Great Ideas, and Truth20.3 Ambiguity and Comprehensive Learning21 Articulating Comprehensivity: The Comprehensive Design of Our Lives21.1 Articulating Comprehensivity21.2 Initiative-Taking, Profession, Mission, and Vision21.3 The Comprehensive Design of Our Lives22 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 Conclusion23 The Measurements of Life (Tools for Comprehensivity)23.1 The Interpretation of Experience, Information, and Data23.2 The Measurements of Life23.3 The Measurements of Life for Our Comprehensivity24 Measuring Beliefs24.1 Assessing Beliefs24.2 Measuring Our Comprehensivity24.3 The Vital Role of Measurement in our Comprehensivity25 The Standard for All Measurements: Our Judgment25.1 The Nature of Measurement25.2 Comprehensive Measurement25.3 Comprehensive Measurement, Judgment, and Our Comprehensivity26 Intellectual Virtues for Comprehensive Practice26.1 Intellectual Virtues26.2 Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Practice26.3 16 Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Practice26.4 Nine Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Exploration26.5 Five Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Comprehension26.6 Two Epistemic Virtues for Comprehensive Collaboration26.7 Virtues and our Comprehensivity Video Companion Playlist List of Figures List of Tables 1Note: 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/.
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