Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
This is the eighth in a series of talk-through videos by Robert M. Ellis about the key points in his book 'Absolutization', first of the Middle Way Philosophy series published by Equinox. Universal aspiration does not involve the dogmatic assumption of a universal perspective that is then applied, but rather a bottom-up development of provisional universal beliefs, similar to that used in science at its best. Bottom-up universality can also be applied to normativity (the values we ought to apply), to systems thinking, and to the stretching of our identifications with a particular group, a particular point in space, or a particular time.
This is the eighth in a series of talk-through videos by Robert M. Ellis about the key points in his book 'Absolutization', first of the Middle Way Philosophy series published by Equinox. Universal aspiration does not involve the dogmatic assumption of a universal perspective that is then applied, but rather a bottom-up development of provisional universal beliefs, similar to that used in science at its best. Bottom-up universality can also be applied to normativity (the values we ought to apply), to systems thinking, and to the stretching of our identifications with a particular group, a particular point in space, or a particular time.
