The Purpose of Capital (eBook)

TABLE OF CONTENTSPart One :  WHERE WE CAME FROM
Chapter One Why Care About the Purpose of Capital?..........................1
Chapter Two On Impact: From Ignorant to Mutual................................36
Cha pter Three Humanity in Context of Self:
Key Stages of Our Journey....................................................................52Part Two : REFLECTIONS ON HOW WE SHAPED THEPRESENT CHARACTER OF CAPITAL
Chapter Four Bookends of History:
The Axial Age, The Anthropocene and Art........................................70
Chapter Five Value Liberation From The Trap of Dualism.................94
Chapter Six Nature is Not the Other.................................................118
Chapter Seven
On Truth: The Rediscovery of Experience as Evidence...................138
Chapter Eight: Demystifying Time and Money..................................166
Chapter Nine: Our Faith in Finance...................................................182Part Three : BEING PRESENT IN THE CREATION OF POSSIBLE PASTS AND POTENTIAL FUTURES
Chapter Ten On Scale and The Impact Commons............................198
Chapter Eleven The Gift of Fire:
The Purpose of Capital as Freedom..................................................214
Chapter Twelve Living Impact:
Purpose as New Progress, Presence as Our Value Manifest........... 244
Afterword The Reading Life: Limitations of Self..................................268ADDENDUM
Acknowledgments...............................................................................277
Author’s Note.......................................................................................279
On Words and Images.........................................................................281
My Best Books ....................................................................................283
Crumbs on A Path: A Partial Bibliography............................................290
Six Lists to Live By................................................................................301
Two Talks in Autumn.............................................................................307
Add itional Selected Writings By Emerson
and Various Collaborators..................................................................... 308
Image Credits.........................................................................................309
Endnotes............................................................................................... 311
Index......................................................................................................337
About the Author....................................................................................345
The Purpose of Capital Project..............................................................346