Charles Edgar Courtney, Jr., died on March 19, 2025. He was 89. A long-time member [1997-2025] and contributor of the Triglav Circle, Charles served on our Board of Directors and also regularly represented the Circle in the annual Harmony with…
Dennis W. MacDonaldProfessor EmeritusSaint Anselm College Technological development has always been subject to a mixed reception of fear - fear of its impact on a people’s way of life or the inability of comprehend the new or threats to livelihood…
Triglav Circle Zoom Session 2January 18, 2025Father John Fortin Over the course of several years in the 530’s and 540’s, Saint Benedict composed and revised a rule for the monks of the monastery of Monte Cassino. The community, which may…
Triglav Circle – 18 January 2025 – Arthur DahlRevised 21 March 2025 Scientific discoveries have built our modern world, but science is neutral in the purposes for which its discoveries are used, as in nuclear energy or nuclear bombs. In…
I will focus my intervention on the similarities of thought around science and nature of three of my preferred philosophers and naturalists, Alexander von Humboldt, Robert Hainard and Arne Naess. Beyond describing unnumerable species, their behaviour and the ecosystems they…
Par Philippe Roch, écrivain, ancien directeur de l’Office Fédéral de l’Environnement, ancien secrétaire d’Etat. Je me sens proche de l’écologie profonde d’Arne Naess (1912 – 2009) dans sa recherche d’harmonie et d’équilibre écologique et sa proximité avec la Nature. Read…
In the halcyon days of multilateralism during the 1990s, the prospects for strengthening global cooperation looked very promising due to the political changes in Russia and the Eastern bloc states and the liberalism in Western countries.All that has changed. We…
The Triglav Circle met via Zoom on the 18th of January After a hiatus of several months to study and reflect on the substance and importance of relations between the physical and formal sciences and humanities, the Zoom meeting took…
Some Observations Addressing the Sciences and the Humanities The 4thTriglav Circle on Zoom ---- 18 January 2025 The humanities and humanism evolved over centuries. In the Western world humanism can be traced back to Greece in the 5th century BCE. …
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,…