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Leadership for an Age of WisdomA Metaphysical View

Leadership for an Age of Wisdom: A Metaphysical View [What the previous chapters have argued is that leaders aspiring to be more wisdom-led must strive to expand their considered awarenessawareness so as to extend their consciousness. Wisdomwisdom-led leadership depends on the clarity and accuracy of the voice of their consciousness and their willingness to authentically follow its advice. Through consciousness examining itself, the leader’s authenticityauthenticity can be reinforced. Reinforced authenticity reinvigorates inner freedomfreedom and, ultimately, strengthens moralmoral integritymoral integrity. Having an enduring and resolute commitment to maintaining their moral integrityintegrity means that leaders’ actions will always be in the best interests of others. Their leadership will be wisdom-led. However, if consciousness is to be the core of wisdomwisdom-led leadership, leadership then its nature must be understandable and its functioning explainable. But, the concept of human consciousnessconsciousness is not without controversy. As described in this chapter, there is serious doubt that we will ever be able to understand the nature of consciousness. But, this recognition by many leading philosophers of the unresolved, and possibly unresolvable, problem of understandingunderstanding the nature of consciousnessconsciousness provides an opportunity for a conceptual breakthrough insofar as it leads to the realisation that any satisfactory solution needs to move beyond previous ontological assumptions. To this end, this chapter provides a comprehensive description of a radically different metaphysical framework for understanding human consciousness. It describes the ontology of radical naturalism and its supportive epistemology of embodied awareness and strongly argues that this framework can readily and credibly describe the nature and function of human consciousness. Simply stated, embodied awarenessembodied awareness implies that our essential knowledge is provided to us through the combined input of our cognitive capabilities, our senses, and our bodybody’s experience of the world as perceived through our feelingsfeelings, intuitionsintuition, emotionsemotions, and physiological reactions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Leadership for an Age of WisdomA Metaphysical View

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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
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978-90-481-2995-9
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55 –69
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10.1007/978-90-481-2996-6_5
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[What the previous chapters have argued is that leaders aspiring to be more wisdom-led must strive to expand their considered awarenessawareness so as to extend their consciousness. Wisdomwisdom-led leadership depends on the clarity and accuracy of the voice of their consciousness and their willingness to authentically follow its advice. Through consciousness examining itself, the leader’s authenticityauthenticity can be reinforced. Reinforced authenticity reinvigorates inner freedomfreedom and, ultimately, strengthens moralmoral integritymoral integrity. Having an enduring and resolute commitment to maintaining their moral integrityintegrity means that leaders’ actions will always be in the best interests of others. Their leadership will be wisdom-led. However, if consciousness is to be the core of wisdomwisdom-led leadership, leadership then its nature must be understandable and its functioning explainable. But, the concept of human consciousnessconsciousness is not without controversy. As described in this chapter, there is serious doubt that we will ever be able to understand the nature of consciousness. But, this recognition by many leading philosophers of the unresolved, and possibly unresolvable, problem of understandingunderstanding the nature of consciousnessconsciousness provides an opportunity for a conceptual breakthrough insofar as it leads to the realisation that any satisfactory solution needs to move beyond previous ontological assumptions. To this end, this chapter provides a comprehensive description of a radically different metaphysical framework for understanding human consciousness. It describes the ontology of radical naturalism and its supportive epistemology of embodied awareness and strongly argues that this framework can readily and credibly describe the nature and function of human consciousness. Simply stated, embodied awarenessembodied awareness implies that our essential knowledge is provided to us through the combined input of our cognitive capabilities, our senses, and our bodybody’s experience of the world as perceived through our feelingsfeelings, intuitionsintuition, emotionsemotions, and physiological reactions.]

Published: Aug 21, 2009

Keywords: Black Hole; Human Consciousness; Current Moment; Subjective Reasoning; Fundamental Actuality

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