By Margo Picken Justice Michael Kirby said in an interview in 2003: If you ask what the essence of human rights is, I think it's love, that you can love another person, even a person who's done very wrong things,…
By Barbara Baudot To date the Circle has held three Zoom meetings. The first one held on 24 October 2020 focused on issues relating to Harmony with Nature. The second Zoom meeting took place the 23rd of January 2021. Its…
By Konrad Raiser By Konrad Raiser “Now, we got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. (Yes) Power at…
A Bahá’í perspective on Love By Arthur Lyon Dahl The Bahá’í concept of universal selfless love is very broad. The following texts can help us to define such love and its applications, including in politics. The first comes from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá,…
Observation by Jeremy Thompson [New Zealand] Among the thoughts I have had about Politics and Love include the following contemporary examples at polar opposite ends of the political spectrum Vladimir Putin President of Russia exemplifies the worst of Politics of…
By Hideo Shingu 2022/11/26 Noosphere may be understood as the expression of states of mind which is the outgrowth of the living earth or biosphere according to Vladimir Vernadsky. Physics and mind are two different matters existing in rather opposite…
By Philipp Roche Tout engagement efficace pour l'écologie commence par un acte d’amour. J’ai été toute ma vie un militant, un activiste et je n’hésite pas à me qualifier de fondamentaliste si l’on entend par là la conviction profonde que…
by Noriko Hashimoto I) Human Interdependence with Nature Challenged by Machines Professor Imamichi indicated, “humans are creating various machines that have structures totally inconceivable in nature and are trying to bring nature under their complete control. Human beings not only…
By Dominique Michal Applying an Ethic of Love to Current Global Crises: When Confronting Challenges to Democracy, Community, and Individual Freedoms; the Overuse and Pollution of the Land; and the Destruction of Life in the Biosphere? By Dominique Michal Vladimir…
By Edward Domen Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social, political and environmental issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level consistent with their resolution. Many problems involve several levels inextricably ->…