Volume 2 Issue 1
In This Issue
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 ...
Lead Articles
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Collabrocracy: Collaborative Intelligence and Governance of Globalised Society
There are three forms of intelligence with increased power: individual, collective and collaborative ...
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 ...
Sustainability, Past and Future
"Sustainability” did not appear in any book title until 1976, but there were many related ideas ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Reforming Electronic Markets and Trading
Contexts a key, less-examined issue for the responsible investor community of the rapidly changing structure of securities markets ...
Christian Guillermet-Fernández & David Fernández Puyana
In the 2015 June session of the Human Rights Council, important regional groups, such as ASEAN and EU ...