Volume 2 Issue 6

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Volume 2
SEPTEMBER 2020
Issue 6

Gerald Gutenschwager

Understanding Society: The Interplay of Reason and Emotion

Understanding society requires incorporating all of its human dimensions, including both reason and emotion. Emotion has been underplayed because it complicates the study of...

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…the assumption behind [scientific] consensus is that science is a source of authority. Rather, it is a particularly effective approach to inquiry and analysis. Skepticism is essential to science; consensus is foreign. To expect agreement on all or many aspects of a multifaceted issue would be...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Every physical object, celestial body or a living being, is characterized by the emission of physical quantities (or “grandeurs”) that we define as mass, energy, and “form” (physical order, or shape, or arrangement). The emission of form is usually called information...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The author attempts to examine philosophical components in the way of thinking and decision-making in the sphere of international relations by drawing links from the past and the present. The present uncertain and insecure state of world affairs has led diplomats and...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This analytic piece penetrates into ironic implications of nuclear weaponry and nuclear disarmament efforts, including those embodied in the renowned START treaty. Some of these implications seem to undermine international security and the framework of world order,...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract In this paper, Suter’s scenarios of world governance are discussed and re-evaluated in the light of today’s world. For that purpose, two general models of governing the world are posited, centred on the global/non-global governance dichotomy; then, in turn, each of...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The possible development of the world must be considered first from the viewpoint of information about Nature and possible limits to human capability. The main question is whether there are limits to those notions or not. Despite the efforts of philosophers, we do not...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The paper deals with the problem of externalities caused by environmental pollution. A theoretical contribution made by Ronald Coase, in 1960, presented a paradigm shift in externality policy, offering the possibility of bargaining between parties as an efficient way...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract In this paper we focus on three major factors that will affect the economy and employment globally through to 2040. First, although there will be economic growth globally, it will be uneven; mature economies with older populations slowing and economies with young...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This article focuses on the ubiquity of depravity in society and the promise of public conscience. Public conscience is the foundation of a culture based on the rule of law. The problem of depravity implicates the evolution of the contest between science and morality...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Modern challenges, risks and opportunities of a new technological paradigm of human development—the so-called fourth industrial revolution—are covered in this article. Their social costs and consequences are discussed in detail. The impact of the fourth industrial...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Our world is confronted with formidable challenges, even endangering the continuity of human existence. Most of these dangers are manmade, the outcome of a misplaced attitude towards man, matter and nature. This is rooted in a false paradigm based on the autonomy of...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract We live in extraordinary times. Every generation has thought so, but in fact, ours is the first to be confronted with existential crises of such a magnitude that we might consider humanity to be on the endangered species list. In our past history on this planet we...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This article shares our research, the aim of which is to cure the critical lack of Collaborative Innovation in business, government, politics, military, and personal relationships. The article proposes that Collaborative Innovation comes from ‘Continuous Curiosity’...
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Growth and Distribution have become one of the main instruments for achieving a better standard of living. Fundamental issues of Political Economy can be defined as a conscious effort of the society to follow the economically developed in order to promote rapid and...