In this essay, I introduce eros as the creative love of self-transcending agency. In our development as human beings we must be called to learn and to grow, which requires the willingness to transcend who we currently are. This is not the love of consumption, but of aspiration.

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In this essay I introduce agape as the love of compassionate, educative hospitality for the student's flaws, faults, and mistakes. In producing solarpunk selves we need to be willing to make room for the imperfections of those we seek to change. Transformation is hard enough without punishing people for not already being where we demand they be.

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In this essay, I discuss how self-development requires an ecology of practices that focus on multiple forms of development. I then talk about the philosophy of aspiration and define what an increase in complexity means.

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Neoliberal - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3USzuc8rC7mXRySJmPXbEm?si=9ea0a4f342234169

Androcentric - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5tif6FkJJqIUALOjOMNkiP?si=11bdeca45ec34541

Bioconservative - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0jowt4QuVtN4KK9uFvofGt?si=0035b8b7b7f84856

In this essay I go deeper into the notion that we are composed of parts. In understanding the solarpunk self we need to take these parts into consideration because they can be at different stages of development. If we, despite our usual behaviour, frequently do things that defy our best intentions, then we need to understand why these parts of us do what they do. This was inspired by Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the work of Richard Schwartz.

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In this essay, I discuss the philosophy of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Byung-Chul Han, and how they can help us understand how the solarpunk self emerges. What does it mean to relate to the other as Alter, and why does this actually matter?

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In this essay, I continue my redefinition of the self in a solarpunk culture. We discuss the quality of relations using Martin Buber's distinction between "You" and "It", and then Levinas distinction between "totality" and "infinity". We apply it to the concept of the sexual citizen, using that as our case study for defining ethical relations. As Levinas and Beauvoir say, the sexual relation is exemplary of the ethical.

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In this essay, I continue the deconstruction of the neoliberal individual, the self-interested, autonomous, rational actor we are all expected to be. I then introduce the notion of the relational dividual, or a conception of the self that takes itself to be created out of its relationships and so focuses on the ethical quality of relation.

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In this essay, I begin to contrast the solarpunk self with the notion of the liberal individual, the autonomous, rational actor that we are all assumed to be. What does it mean to expect people to be liberal individuals when many of these capacities must be developed toward? What happens when we fail to educate people in those capacities?

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In this essay, I begin defining a solarpunk self as a relational self, or one created out of its relations with others and the world. Given the egalitarianism of solarpunk, we need relations that are ethical, and according to Beauvoir and Levinas, the sexual relation is exemplary of the ethical. As such, I use heterosexual relationships as a case study for the definition of the solarpunk self.

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In this essay, I introduce a new direction for the channel. We're going to start focusing on solarpunk and the psychological development we need to get there.

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