Emotional Intelligence / Philosopher's Toolkit / Spiral Dynamics
28 terms across 7 themes — every definition in the Atlas sourced from this manual, with executive examples and counter-moves.
Order, discipline, hierarchy, principle, and rule-based value system. The 'right way' to do things.
Whoever makes the positive claim carries the obligation to support it. Absence of disproof isn't proof.
Treating one kind of thing as if it belonged to a different ontological category.
Steelman the strongest version of the opposing view before critiquing it.
Accurately modeling what another person is thinking and feeling — without merging with it.
When the limbic system overrides higher cognition and behavior follows ancient circuits, not chosen values.
The capacity to recognize, understand, and manage emotions — your own and others'.
Each value system (Beige through Green) believes itself to be the only valid one and dismisses the others.
Justified true belief isn't always knowledge — luck can produce true beliefs from defective reasoning.
The communitarian, egalitarian, consensus-seeking value system. Emerged strongly post-1960s.
You can't derive an 'ought' (value claim) from an 'is' (factual claim) without a smuggled premise.
The combination of historical, social, and existential pressures that activates the next vMeme.
Children who delay gratification at age 4 show better outcomes across nearly every metric decades later.
If P then Q. P. Therefore Q. The most basic valid inference move in formal logic.
If P then Q. Not Q. Therefore not P. The logic behind every falsification test.
Necessary = required for X. Sufficient = enough on its own for X. Conflating them is a common error.
The achievement-driven, rational, strategic, market-oriented value system. Most of Western corporate life.
Egocentric, power-driven, immediate-gratification value system. The will to dominate.
Assume the opposite of what you want to prove. Derive a contradiction. The opposite must be false.
Yellow and Turquoise vMemes — first systems that recognize the legitimacy of all earlier value systems.
The continuous, accurate recognition of your own emotions, strengths, limits, and impact.
Channeling disruptive emotions and impulses into productive action.
Managing relationships, inspiring, influencing, and coordinating others toward shared goals.
A developmental model of human value systems (vMemes) emerging in response to life conditions.
Higher-level properties depend on, but aren't reducible to, lower-level ones. Identical bases → identical higher properties.
A controlled scenario, often impossible, used to isolate a variable and test an intuition or theory.
A value system — a structured way of making meaning that emerges at a particular life-condition stage.
The integrative, systemic, flexible value system — the first of second-tier.