Fearless Standpoint Theory: Origins of FMS-9 in Arthur Schopenhauer's Work

Abstract

The author shares a brief autobiographical history of his intellectual studies as Schopenhauer’s philosophy (and psychology) from the 19th century has some basic connections with Wilber’s philosophy (and psychology) in the 20-21st century. He draws upon his early writing of a Fearless Standpoint Theory (FST) which was heavily influenced by Wilber to assert there are deeper roots back to his theory now that he has recently been studying Schopenhauer. The importance of FST, especially in its new synthesis, is given emphasis in this technical paper as part of advancing the author’s overall fear management systems research and applications for the 21st century.