Volume 2, Issue 6 - May 2016

Onwards! Reinforcing Democracy for the 21st Century

"Are there new instruments that we can incorporate into our democratic models that would bring us closer to these
desired outcomes?" ... Read more

Debugging Democracy

Democracy is not only about how people live. It’s also about what they live for—it’s about human dignity, self-esteem, meaningfulness, sense of fulfillment. It’s about values! ... Read more

Social Responsibility and Self-governance by the Scientific Community

"Scientific advances are most likely to arise, or are most easily promoted, when scientists from different disciplines are brought together and encouraged to free themselves from disciplinary constraints." ... Read more

Money, Markets and Social Power

Only when we have the intellectual honesty and courage to squarely confront the truth about money and markets can we hope to change the system. ... Read more

The Market Myth

"Our collective failure to see that the market is a contingent social construct gives rise to myths that treat the market as a fixed reality" ... Read more

Twelve Action Lines For a Better World

"Freedom without responsibility has its limits. In particular, focus should be on the equality of freedom." ... Read more

Relevance of Spiritual Principles for Resolving Social Problems

Conservative philosophies belong to the past and have no future. The future belongs to human-centered values ... Read more

A Brief History of Mind and Civilization

Human evolution is a complex conscious process involving continuous interaction among the objective and subjective dimensions, physical facts and mental conceptions, natural forces and human aspirations, creative individuals and social groups ... Read more

Ruđer Bošković and the Structure of the Experience of Scientific Discovery

To some extent, Bošković was able to identify many of the realities that constitute the conceptual framework of modern physics and chemistry ... Read more

Mind, Thinking and Creativity

The strength of human aspiration and will is not a quantity that can be measured using any equipment or analyzed in a laboratory, and so it often fails to acquire authenticity and credibility as evidence ... Read more

The Integration of Knowledge

The integration of knowledge cannot seek to eradicate any trace of contingency or to reduce every explanation to a physical proposition, but should rather serve to expose the inextricable imbrication that binds all domains of reality ... Read more

Knowing Beyond the Structure: Maximizing Social Power through a Synergistic, Values-based Approach on Diversity

The collective has to see the individual as a unique heterogeneous organization and the individual must function in a harmonious unity ... Read more

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Onwards! Reinforcing Democracy for the 21st Century Ismail Serageldin Humanity has ranged far and wide on a journey of exploration and discovery on the complex issue of what democracy is all about. Many have looked at the evolution of systems of governance in the West and in the East... Read more	Debugging Democracy Alexander Likhotal Democracy was the most successful political idea of the 20th century. However since the beginning of the new century democracy has been clearly suffering from serious structural problems, rather than a few isolated ailments. Why has it run into trouble, can it be revived... Read more
Social Responsibility and Self-governance by the Scientific Community Momir Djurovic Over the past century there have been many profound scientific, technological, economic and social transformations. In the near future, probably, the most dramatic breakthroughs will be achieved through combinations of various scientific disciplines... Read more	Money, Markets and Social Power Garry Jacobs The future science of Economics must be human-centered, value-based, inclusive, global in scope and evolutionary in perspective. It needs to be fundamentally interdisciplinary to reflect the increasingly complex sectoral interconnections that characterize modern society. It must also be founded on transdisciplinary principles of social existence and human development that constitute the theoretical foundation... Read more
The Market Myth Tomas Björkman The Market can be understood as a self-organizing system that is constantly evolving. Like all social institutions, it is governed by principles and rules created by society, not by any universal laws of nature. If it does not work the way we want it to, we have the power and freedom to change its rules. However, prevailing notions about the market... Read more	Twelve Action Lines For a Better World F. J. Radermacher This article describes a global governance system that—from the author’s point of view—would lead to sustainability and allow the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have just been adopted at the UN level. Major elements are (1) the integration of existing international regimes in the area of the UN, WTO... Read more
Relevance of Spiritual Principles for Resolving Social Problems Ashok Natarajan Society unknowingly follows the course of spiritual evolution. Spirituality is the quest for self-existent order and harmonious perfection. The evolution of society is driven by an irrepressible aspiration for the values that are the translation and embodiment of that order. The history of civilization is a record of its progressive emergence. Spirituality is the quest for a unifying reality that transcends all limitations... Read more	A Brief History of Mind and Civilization Garry Jacobs The rational mind is the highest evolved status of human consciousness. The evolution of mind and civilization has proceeded hand in hand for millennia. The development of new capacities of mind made possible the development of tools, language, agriculture, permanent settlements ... Read more
The Integration of Knowledge Carlos Blanco The exponential growth of knowledge demands an interdisciplinary reflection on how to integrate the different branches of the natural sciences and the humanities into a coherent picture of world, life, and mind. Insightful intellectual tools, like evolutionary Biology and Neuroscience, can facilitate this project ... Read more	Mind, Thinking and Creativity Janani Ramanathan Global civilization is the product of diverse cultures, each contributing a unique perspective arising from the development of different mental faculties and powers of mind. The momentous achievements of modern science are the result of the cumulative development of mind’s capacity for analytic thinking ... Read more
Knowing Beyond the Structure: Maximizing Social Power through a Synergistic, Values-based Approach on Diversity Marta Neškovic In this article, a principal place is given to the question of how the ways we conceptualize the use of our mind influence the generation of social power. We define social power as the potency of socially integrated individuals to accomplish specific predetermined values ... Read more	Ruđer Bošković and the Structure of the Experience of Scientific Discovery Francis Brassard Ruđer Josip Bošković (1711-1787) was a Jesuit priest and a scientist from the former Republic of Dubrovnik in today’s Croatia. He published many works in such fields as mathematics, physics, astronomy and geodesy ... Read more
Towards an Understanding of Global Crises Neantro Saavedra-Rivano This paper offers some elements for the construction of a theory of global crises. It distinguishes between man-made crises and human-induced crises. The conceptual framework developed draws upon the ideas set forth by Douglass North... Read more	The Crisis of Labour, Widespread Precarity and Basic Income Luca Santini, Sandro Gobetti A feeling of uncertainty about the future as well as the perception that the past classical securities are gone are widely spread among people. Criticism or disaffection affects the majority of the traditional political forces of the European continent... Read more
Homoeconomico-politicus, Scientific Consciousness, and the Defense of Fundamental Values in the Context of the Climate Change Crisis: The Challenge of Scientific Responsibility for the Future of Economic and Political Science Winston P. Nagan, Megan Weeren The general framework of this paper is to focus on the evolution of scienti c consciousness and the dramatic technological developments it has generated... Read more	Socioeconomic Challenges and Crises: Brazilian Illustration and the Search for a New Paradigm Joanilio Rodolpho Teixeira, Rodolfo Marcílio Teixeira Economic Neoliberalism in its most perverse form has been recapturing the imagination of policy makers worldwide. It emerged in the context of a prolonged crisis, increasing unemployment and unsustainability in the public sector... Read more

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Volume 2, Issue 6 - May 2016