a Meeting of the Triglav Circle Harvard Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: Harvard-Yenching 617-495-3369 16-17 December 2005 Topic for discussion: Human Flourishing and Social Justice AGENDA AND PROGRAMME OF WORK 1. As indicated in the letter of invitation…
The title of this paper suggests a study in comparative ethics, and in part that is just what it is. But it is more nearly contrastive than comparative, and more importantly, I want to contrast not ethical theories, but one…
It has become fairly common among students and observers of social developments to speak of a “re-surgence of religion”. Reference usually is made to the strong public profile of new religious movements in all religious traditions and their increasing impact…
Artists – whether writers, painters, musicians, architects, sculptors, dramatists, dancers, or filmmakers – and artworks – whether poetry, literature, visual arts, solid forms, music, theater works, photography, or cinema – contribute to building peaceful, vibrant societies and can inspire relations…
While environmental degradation quietly accelerates, part of human society prospers in the deceiving splendor of great wealth in things, other parts aspire to this affluent life style and the rest of humanity remain in various levels of poverty—be it relative…
In the seven years since 9/11, religion has taken a more central stage in defining world politics. Global security issues and many conflicts are now seen through the prism of religion: with the view that they are about religious groups…
Preliminary ideas for a project of the Triglav Circle The issue Since the last quarter of the 20thcentury, religions have an increasing presence in world affairs. A number of armed conflicts and tensions within countries have a religious dimension and…
REUNION OUGNY/LE VIGNOT, 9-10 JUILLET 2009 SUJET : REVOIR L’IDEE DE « BESOINS MATERIELS ET SPIRITUELS DES INDIVIDUS ET DES SOCIETES » ORDRE DU JOUR Contexte Le Sommet Mondial pour le Développement Social, conférence organisée en 1995 par les Nations Unies et à laquelle avaient…
We are here today to consider the relation between politics and the arts, two major domains of human life that are often kept apart. Some see politics as the exercise of power in distinction from the merely esthetic. In contrast,…
CERCLE TRIGLAV REUNION DES 9 ET 10 JUILLET 2008, OUGNY L’Idee de Progrès et son Utilité Aujourd’hui ORDRE DU JOUR ET PROGRAMME DE TRAVAIL La raison d’être de ce Cercle Triglav, crée quand l’Organisation des Nations Unies jouait par ses…