People Index
People Index
Explore the thinkers Wilber draws on, argues with, and reinterprets. Each linked page brings together his view of that person with passages from the books where he discusses them.
Browse the two book rosters below, or visit the Concept Index to follow an idea. For comparisons between developmental models, see the charts from Integral Psychology.
From Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
The thinkers below appear in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality. Mention counts offer a rough indication of frequency, not a ranking of influence or depth of engagement. Names without links have only brief references in the material reviewed so far.
| Person | Mentions | Peak chapter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Jürgen Habermas | 222 | ch. 5, ch. 4, ch. 12 |
| Plotinus | 200 | ch. 9, ch. 10 |
| Michel Foucault | 140 | ch. 12, ch. 4 |
| Georg Hegel | 130 | ch. 14, ch. 13 |
| Jean Piaget | 125 | ch. 6, ch. 7 |
| Sigmund Freud | 107 | ch. 6, ch. 13 |
| Jean Gebser | 63 | ch. 5 |
| Baruch Spinoza | 58 | ch. 13 |
| Joseph Campbell | 58 | ch. 6 |
| Carl Jung | 57 | ch. 6 |
| Jacques Derrida | 49 | ch. 2, ch. 12 |
| Martin Heidegger | 44 | ch. 7, ch. 11 |
| Alfred North Whitehead | 43 | ch. 2 |
| Karl Marx | 43 | ch. 5 |
| Sri Aurobindo | 31 | ch. 9 |
| Charles Darwin | 27 | ch. 1, ch. 13 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 22 | ch. 11, ch. 12 |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | 20 | ch. 6 |
| Jane Loevinger | 15 | ch. 6 |
| Arthur Koestler | 15 | ch. 1 |
| Abraham Maslow | 13 | ch. 6 |
| Max Weber | 10 | ch. 5, ch. 12 |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 9 | ch. 4 |
| Gregory Bateson | 8 | — |
| Stephen Jay Gould | 4 | — |
| Auguste Comte | 1 | — |
| Roberto Assagioli | 1 | — |
From Integral Psychology
These pages include passages from Integral Psychology. Counts refer to this book only; a person who appears in both rosters has a single page bringing their excerpts together.
| Person | Mentions (in IP) | Peak chapter(s) | Also in SES roster? |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Mark Baldwin | 43 | ch. 7, ch. 4, ch. 1 | No |
| Jean Piaget | 31 | ch. 1, ch. 4, ch. 7 | Yes |
| Jürgen Habermas | 24 | ch. 7, ch. 12, ch. 13 | Yes |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | 23 | ch. 4, ch. 7, ch. 9 | Yes |
| Sri Aurobindo | 21 | ch. 7, ch. 1, ch. 12 | Yes |
| Jean Gebser | 17 | ch. 12, ch. 13, ch. 1 | Yes |
| Jane Loevinger | 16 | ch. 4, ch. 3, ch. 8 | Yes |
| Abraham Maslow | 14 | ch. 7, ch. 4, ch. 1 | Yes |
| Plotinus | 8 | ch. 1, ch. 12, ch. 3 | Yes |
| Clare Graves | 21 | ch. 4, ch. 13, ch. 3 | No |
| Robert Kegan | 9 | ch. 4, ch. 3, ch. 2 | No |
| Erik Erikson | 8 | ch. 4, ch. 3, ch. 8 | No |
| Carol Gilligan | 7 | ch. 2, ch. 13, ch. 1 | No |
| Susanne Cook-Greuter | 7 | ch. 1, ch. 4, ch. 3 | No |
