Volume 2 Issue 1

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Volume 2
NOVEMBER 2015
Issue 1

Gerald Gutenschwager

Determinism and Reification: The Twin Pillars of the Amoral Society

The history of ethics is a troubled one. It is often plagued by the twin pillars of determinism and reification. The first is the belief that all things in the universe, both social and physical, are determined by the laws of God and/or nature and that humans merely discover these laws. The second refers to the tendency of human beings to forget the subjective ...

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Gerald Gutenschwager

Determinism and Reification: The Twin Pillars of the Amoral Society

The history of ethics is a troubled one. It is often plagued by the twin pillars of determinism and reification. The first is the belief that all things in the universe, both social ...

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Federico Mayor

Higher Education - Cornerstone of the New Era

For the first time in history, because of digital technology, human beings are able to express themselves freely and participate in society ...

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Mladen Staničić & Josip Sapunar

EU between Monetarism and Keynesianism

To address the current economic disagreements and issues, the EU is hovering between economic and political arguments ...

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Dimitar Tchurovsky

Collabrocracy: Collaborative Intelligence and Governance of Globalised Society

There are three forms of intelligence with increased power: individual, collective and collaborative ...

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Robert J. Berg

Remarks on Visions of Sustainable Development

Global agreements are getting harder to achieve. The current environmental agreements require a variable geometry that is still to be worked out and tested. A better role for the UN would be to demonstrate by example ...

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Michael Marien

Sustainability, Past and Future

"Sustainability” did not appear in any book title until 1976, but there were many related ideas ...

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Charles Smith

Breaking Free: Bringing the Overview Effect to Life and Work

Upon breaking free of Earth’s gravity and going to space, some astronauts experienced a surprising change in their perspective of life on Earth. Author Frank White named this ...

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John Scales Avery

The Future of International Law

After the invention of agriculture, roughly 10,000 years ago, humans began to live in progressively larger groups, which were sometimes multi-ethnic. In order to make towns, cities and finally nations function ...

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Winston P. Nagan

Introduction to the New Paradigm of Political Economic Theory

This short article is an attempt to provide a reasonably simplified introduction to a complex initiative. Influential Fellows ...

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Hazel Henderson

Reforming Electronic Markets and Trading

Contexts a key, less-examined issue for the responsible investor community of the rapidly changing structure of securities markets ...

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