ABSTRACT
Ethics is susceptible to formal study, application and inferences, just as any socio-scientific theme is prone to be. Such was the explanation given by Albert Einstein to his friend Niels Bohr. Yet throughout the entire history of socio-scientific research, even as far back as Aristotle, the concept of morality and ethics was overshadowed by the epistemology of rationalism. This marked the persistence of methodological individualism or hegemony by governance in the individual and the collective. The mind–matter relationship, although desired by so many thinkers for the organic causality between them, was defeated by their inability to answer the greater worldview of morality and ethics. Thus, there arises the new paradigm that this chapter presents. We refer to this as the endogenous ethics of the epistemic grounding in unity of knowledge. The result is also the regenerative and creative nature of the unified reality intra-systems and inter-systems. This chapter has developed the theory and has formalized it in a phenomenological model of unity of knowledge and the world-system. The results of the formalism when compared with the ethical theory of Abraham Edel’s Existentialist Perspectives (EPs) were applied to the wellbeing theme of Canadian Aboriginals in relation to their philosophy of education and development as a lifelong holism of evolutionary learning with spiritual roots. The example of the social problems faced by Canadian Aboriginals move the discussion in the chapter to a wider conception and application of the phenomenological model of endogenous ethics.
