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David Elliot Loye
Birth Date:26 April 1925
Birth Place:Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Death Place:Carmel, California, U.S.
Spouses:Billy Henslee Loye, Riane Eisler
Children:Four
Awards:
  • 1972 Anisfield-Wolfe Award [1]
  • 1993 Moral Pioneering Award

David Elliot Loye (April 26, 1925 – January 25, 2022) was an American author, psychologist, and evolutionary systems scientist.[2]

Early life

Born in Palo Alto, California, Loye served in World War II in the Navy under the writer Walter Karig.[3] Their division was involved in writing projects associated with the war effort. After the war, he completed his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College in writing and psychology. There, his poetry classes with Robert Frost[4] deeply influenced him. He returned to Oklahoma City and worked with journalist Frank McGee at WKYTV.[5]

Career

Loye went on to become the editor of Oklahoma Today magazine [6] before moving to Princeton New Jersey in 1960. While there he began attending the New School and ultimately earned a master's degree and a doctorate in psychology.[7] Loye wrote the national award-winning (Anisfield-Wolfe Award, 1972) book, The Healing of a Nation,.[8] This book focused on history and solutions to healing the "sickness" of racism in America.

During this time Loye moved to a job with the Educational Testing Services in Princeton, New Jersey.[9] After his Phd was awarded he began a short-term position at Princeton University (1970-1971), Before moving to Los Angeles to become a UCLA School of Medicine Research Director for the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and Neuropsychiatric Institute (1971–78).[10] Along with Roderic Gorney and Gary Steele, Loye developed the groundwork for the study on television violence its impact of mass entertainment on evolution and human survival.[11] [12]

In the 1980s Loye moved to Carmel, California and transitioned to full-time writing and research on the evolution within society in a social context. He worked with his partner and wife, Riane Eisler, along with evolution theorist Ervin Laszlo[13] on concepts of a cooperatively oriented theory of evolution.[14] These three, along with others, became co-founders of the multinational General Evolution Research Group and World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, of which Loye is a former book review editor and continuing member of the editorial board.[15]

Charles Darwin

In the 1990s Loye wrote about Charles Darwin’s case for moral evolution rather than the "survival of the fittest/selfish gene theory" mindset as a higher order prime driver for human evolution. Of his book Darwin’s Lost Theory, internationally eminent scientist Ervin Laszlo has written: "...everyone concerned with our understanding of evolution on this planet owes Loye a deep debt of gratitude... Of urgent importance to the intellectual discourse of our time...[he] has brought his unique erudition to an enormous and critical task, and carried it off with genius...Should cause a revolution in social theory...Dramatically changes our understanding of Darwin and of evolution itself...One of the major books of the early Twenty-First Century".[16] [17]

Personal life and death

Loye married twice, first to Billy Henslee Loye, and secondly to author Riane Eisler. He had four children. Loye died in Carmel, California on January 25, 2022, at the age of 96.[18]

Honors

Books

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards | Winners by Year . Anisfield-wolf.org . September 5, 2016.
  2. Web site: Partnership 101 . Riane Eisler . June 20, 2014 . September 5, 2016.
  3. Book: 3,000 Years of Love . David Loye . 68 . August 2007. September 5, 2016. 9780978982751 .
  4. Web site: Loye_inhalt.indd . Arbor-verlag.de . September 5, 2016.
  5. Book: 3,000 Years of Love . David Loye . 212 . August 2007. September 5, 2016. 9780978982751 .
  6. Web site: Oklahoma Today Winter 1980-1981 Volume 31 No. 1 . Digital.library.okstate.edu . September 5, 2016.
  7. Web site: Microsoft Word - Volckmann . Integral-review.org . September 5, 2016.
  8. Web site: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards | The Healing of a Nation . Anisfield-wolf.org . June 20, 2014 . September 5, 2016.
  9. Web site: ED052258.tif.pdf . Files.eric.ed.gov . September 5, 2016.
  10. Web site: Loye . David . Planeet Raymond: Obama and Human Evolution . Raymondvanes.blogspot.com . March 1, 2004 . September 5, 2016.
  11. 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1977.tb02149.x . 27 . 3 . Journal of Communication . 206–216 . An Experimental Field Study. 1977 . Loye . David . Gorney . Roderic . Steele . Gary .
  12. 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1978.tb01588.x . 28 . 2 . Journal of Communication . 12–28 . The Impact of Television on American Institutions. 1978 . Comstock . George .
  13. Book: Ervin Laszlo & David Loye (eds.), The Evolutionary Outrider: The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution: Essays Honoring Ervin Laszlo . PhilPapers . January 28, 2009 . September 5, 2016.
  14. Web site: "Dominator" vs. "partnership" cultures: A profound re-telling of human history . The Rules . September 5, 2016.
  15. 10.1080/02604027.1990.9972195 . 30 . 1–2 . Moral sensitivity and the Evolution of higher mind . World Futures . 41–52. 1990. Loye. David.
  16. Web site: The Books of David Loye . Thedarwinproject.com . September 5, 2016.
  17. Web site: A Review of David Loye's book, "Darwin's Lost Theory of Love" . 101bananas.com . September 5, 2016.
  18. Web site: David Elliot Loye . Trident Society . 18 February 2022.
  19. Web site: Table of Contents . Fascinatingstranger.com . September 5, 2016.

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