Volume 2 Issue 2

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Volume 2
JULY-AUGUST 2016
Issue 2

Alexander Likhotal

Science and Progress

Science has become a part of almost every aspect of our life and takes justified credit for our progress. However, the fundamental myth of progress—that it produces a steady betterment of life—is crumbling before our eyes. The experience of the twentieth century, with its civil and world wars, Gulags and Holocaust, was too tragic to support a continued belief in a kind of granted optimism of world history...

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Lead Articles

Alexander Likhotal

Science and Progress

Science has become a part of almost every aspect of our life and takes justified credit for our progress. However, the fundamental myth of progress—that it produces a steady betterment of life...

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Juri Engelbrecht

Complex Society and Values

Contemporary society is a highly complex system which involves many constituents starting from alliances and states to individual persons...

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Jakob von Uexkull

History has knocked very loudly on our door. Will we answer?

Today there can be no doubt that we live in a crucial time in human history. Our decisions and actions...

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Winston Nagan and Megan Weeren

The Future of Higher Education

In this paper the author identifies the importance of the development of thinking skills in the exposure to higher education...

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Ivo Šlaus

Concluding Remarks at the Podgorica Conference

Global scientific output doubles in about 9 years, which means that the rate is now five times larger than it was at the time of Newton, Faraday.. .

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Charles Smith

Conversations that Matter

The article is about building a bridge between abstract discussions and conversations that matter. It is about transcending...

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Michael Marien and Michael Sales

Book Review

The Collective Leadership Paradigm Shift...

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Rajendra Pachauri

Addressing Sustainable Development Goals and Tackling Climate Change: Scientific Realities and Options

The paper traces the history of the global dialogue on sustainable development...

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F. J. Radermacher

Things are changing after all

The global situation is getting more difficult every year. While states fortunately agreed on the SDGs and on a climate contract in New York and Paris...

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Winston Nagan and Megan Weeren

The Mind of the Leader

The mind of the leader as a scientific matter, emerges with the development of modern psychoanalysis, modern psychology and contemporary...

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Carlos Alvarez Pereira

Towards a Society of Living

This contribution explores the shortcomings of our current understanding of economy and economics, and how the incumbent framework of interpretation...

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David Norris

Beyond Perspective

This short article suggests that as effective as it might be for dealing with technical issues, rational thinking seems totally hopeless for the essential human problems, because it confuses wholeness with totality...

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Shlomo Yishai

Human Mutuality System

This article describes the challenge posed by the ‘Human Global Era’ we live in. Humanity lives in a new reality...

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