The philosophical origins of history’s greatest cultural movements can often be traced back to visionaries who dared to think in ways far ahead of their time. The seeds of modernism that flourished during the Enlightenment, for example, were sown by the philosophers of ancient Greece. The postmodern ideals that led to the 1960s revolution were forged centuries before by the Romantics in Britain and the Transcendalists in America. Now, as we enter a new era in which the cosmology of evolution starts to shape our values, ethics, and spirituality, a new lineage of evolutionary philosophers has started to reveal itself within the rich history of ideas.

In this Unbound audio recorded during a public talk last fall, EnlightenNext magazine's executive editor Carter Phipps explores the 250-year-old pedigree of sages, scientists, and philosophers who laid the foundations for a new cosmology based on the insight that everything in the universe is part of a single unfolding evolutionary process. Starting with the German idealists of the eighteenth century, Phipps overviews the most influential of these pioneers, from Sri Aurobindo and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to Jean Gebser and Ken Wilber.

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