Two years ago, in March 2006, a similar meeting took place at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on the subject of The Global Civil Society. The report on this meeting states that "were considered part of the global civil…
11/15/07 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE Saad Z. Nagi 1 The objectives in this statement are to: clarify what is meant by science and technology; explain the relationships between the two; and distinguish between the ways knowledge is organized…
Seminar on the Philosophical, Ethical and Cultural Dimensions of Health and the Environment The Sawyer Seminar Program on Health and Environment in China and India organized in cooperation with the Triglav Circle Duke University 9-10 November 2007 The Sawyer Seminar…
Positivism, Natural Science and the World of Metaphysics by Barbara Baudot It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy. Albert Einstein. Presently, positivism dominates public thinking: knowledge gained from the observable and the…
12 November 2007 Duke-Triglav Environment and Health Conference Remarks Jeffrey Plank, University of Virginia Introductory Remarks for Panel Discussion Ruth Bell’s experiences as a practitioner in global climate change policy, Chunling Lu’s case study about China, and all the…
An opinion poll conducted among Somali children and young people tells us that two thirds of the children believe that elections are a ‘very effective’ means to improve the state of things in the country. Though none of the children…
REUNION DU CERCLE TRIGLAV OUGNY, 30 Juin-1 juillet 2007 LAICITE, ETHIQUE ET POLITIQUE ORDRE DU JOUR ET PROGRAMME DE TRAVAIL Trois thèmes sont proposes pour ce débat : Premier Thème : Est-ce que les democracies libérales, adeptes de différentes formes de sécularisation…
CERCLE TRIGLAV REUNION DU 30 JUIN-1 JUILLET, OUGNY, FRANCE LAICITE, ETHIQUE ET POLITIQUE COMPTE-RENDU DES DEBATS La premiere observation justifiant le choix de ce sujet de reflexion etait que le fait religieux a pris durant ces dernieres decennies une importance…
THEMES AND QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE, PROGRAMME OF WORK, and BACKGROUND NOTE THEMES AND QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE Theme 1: Do secular liberal democracies need to redefine their relations with religions, and/or with the spiritual realm? Among the issues that could be…
TRIGLAV CIRCLE, OUGNY, FRANCE, 30JUNE/1JULY 2007 The choice of this subject for debate -"secularism, ethics and politics"- and the formulation of the agenda were based on a fact and on three judgments. The observable fact was the political visibility and…