From Wilber's "post-metaphysical" Excerpt C:
[...]the chief activity of integral cognition is not looking at all of the available theories--whether premodern, modern, or postmodern--and then asking, "Which one of those is the most accurate or acceptable?," but rather consists in asking, "How can all of those be right?" The fact is, all of the various theories, practices, and established paradigms--in the sciences, arts, and humanities--are already being practiced: they are already arising in a Kosmos that clearly allows them to arise, and the question is not, which of those is the correct one, but what is the structure of the Kosmos such that it allows all of those to arise in the first place? What is the architecture of a universe that includes so many wonderful rooms?
What is a description of the structure and architecture of the Kosmos, if it is not metaphysics? Post-metaphysical FAIL.
Granted that Wilber's metaphysics is radically inclusive of a variety of methodologies, by virtue of being a meta-paradigm, or a meta-metaphysics. Still, I'm dismayed that Wilber replaces metaphysics with metaphysics-in-drag. I am hopeful that the seeds of a truly post-metaphysical integral theory will be planted by some of Wilber's more critical readers. Anyone spotted any sprouts?

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