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An Ecological Organic Paradigm:
A Framework of Analysis for Moral and Political Philosophy

James H. Rutherford

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Abstract

 
 

I. Introduction

 
 

II. An Ecological Organic Paradigm (EOP)

 
 

  1. The Classical Origins of the Organic Paradigm
  2. The Organic Paradigm in Folk Psychology
  3. The Organic Paradigm in Evolutionary and Psychological Development
  4. Some Qualification of the Cognitive Capacities

 
 

III. A Framework of Analysis for Understanding the Dynamics of Moral and Political Philosophy

 
 

IV. Why the Organic Paradigm was Abandoned in Philosophy and Why it should be Reconsidered

 
 

V. Examples of the Ecological Organic Paradigm as a Framework of Analysis

 
 

  1. Equality
  2. Abortion

 
 

VI. Further Observations and Conclusions

 
 

Notes

 
 

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      This article was published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 6, Number 10, 1999 (October) and is reproduced with permission.

      James Rutherford is an orthopaedic surgeon in Columbus Ohio. He writes independently in moral and political philosophy. His publications include The Moral Foundations of the United Constitutional Democracy: An Analytical and Historical Inquiry into the Primary Moral Concept of Equality. He is also president of Connect Online.

James H Rutherford
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