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…
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. …
TRIGLAV CIRCLE, MEETING OF 29 JUNE-1 JULY 2018, POUSSIGNOL, BLISMES, FRANCE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT REPORT The agenda proposed two themes for discussion. The first was the situation of scientists with distinction between scientists living under authoritarian regimes…
My topic is of great contemporary interest, but I want to launch our discussion with reference to two giants of modern philosophy. In Book III of his masterwork, The Ethics, Baruch Spinoza says that “Everything, as far as it…
TRIGLAV CERCLE RENCONTRE AU CHATEAU DE POUSSIGNOL, BLISMES, 58120, France, 29 JUIN-1 JUILLET 2018 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGIE ET ESPRIT HUMAIN ORDRE DU JOUR ET PROGRAMME DE TRAVAIL Présentation du sujet Dans un pays où les universités attirent des étudiants du monde…
TRIGLAV CIRCLE Triglav Circle US and Europe : Cuy, France and Ougny, France 0386840100; 1 978 758 3196www.triglavcircleonline.org MEETING IN CHATEAU DE POUSSIGNOL,BLISMES, 58120, France, 29 JUNE-1 JULY 2018 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT AGENDA AND PROGRAMME OF WORK Presentation of the subject In a country with…