Guided evolution of society : a systems view

1. Introduction. Part I: The Evolutionary Journey of Humankind. 2. The Evolution of the Evolutionary Idea. 3. The Story of Human and Societal Evolution: The Evolutionary Journey of our Ancestors. 4. The Story of the Evolution of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Part II: The Journey From Evolutionary Consciousness to Conscious Evolution. 5. What Have We Learned From the Evolutionary Story? 6. From Evolutionary Consciousness to Conscious Evolution. 7. Calling for Conscious Evolution. Part III: Self-Guided Evolution. 8. Organizing Perspectives and Conditions of Engaging in Self-Guided Evolution. 9. Self-Guided Evolution. 10. An Epistemology of Conscious, Self-Guided Evolution. 11. The Design of Evolutionary Guidance Systems. 12. The Agoras of the Twenty First Century. A Closing Thought.