The Baha'i Studies Listserv Many forms of idealism and realism might increase our understandings. However, to a social scientist, since essences cannot be directly observed, their nature, or location, would be mostly irrelevant anyway. As a sociologist, I am building a new critical realist perspective, which includes the ontology of The Unities Model of Existence, called Structurization Theory <http://structurization.com/>^(TM). Aspects of it have resembled Ram Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism and its later development as the philosophy of meta-Reality <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meta-reality/>. Bhaskar is a blessed individual who has recognized the unity of existence. Still, the approach which I have taken differs from Bhaskar's perspective in certain areas.
Although Critical Realism is a philosophical and theoretical movement on the intellectual left, "left" does not refer, in this context, to a political orientation. Critical Realism takes no particular position on partisan issues. There are, I presume, self-identified critical realists with a variety of political and economic views. Instead, intellectual left is used here for the social emancipation and spiritual self-realization (conscious-raising, critical consciousness, or conscientization) of oppressed peoples. By providing theories or explanatory accounts of behavior, sociology and other human sciences can help point the way toward that emancipation. From: http://unities.bahaifaith.info/ __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-631921-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
