A TRIGLAV CIRCLE gathering was held on 22 October 2011 at Saint Anselm College Library Manchester NH. The Topic for the Meeting was STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND STATE OF WORLD POLITICS, or, MAN, NATURE, AND GLOBAL POLICY Introduction to the…
Secretariat of the Trilglav Circle, 17 October 2011 TRIGLAV MEETING, MANCHESTER, 22 OCTOBER 2011: MAN, NATURE AND GLOBAL POLICY Summary Information on International Treaties, State of the Environment and Issues before the General Assembly (from United Nations sources) I Main International Treaties…
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…
On peut prétendre que l’étymologie du mot ‘nihilisme’ est double. Il provient d’une part de ne hilum, « il n’y a pas de fil ». Aucun fil ne relie les choses entre elles. Tout est ce qu’il est; il ne…
AGENDA AND PROGRAMME OF WORK Making a contribution to the building of a peaceful world community is certainly the raison d'etre of this Circle which was created when the United Nations, through its world conferences, was performing the role of…
REPORT ON THE MEETING HELD IN FRANCE, 9-10 JULY 2008 Four currents ran through the debate: a critique of progress, as a concept and an ideology central to the dominant form of modernity; an apology of the same idea of…
Agenda The following agenda contains a number of suggested questions participants might address to move the discourse on this broad subject beyond the traditional debates on development taking place regularly in international and national forums where the discourse is dominated…
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…
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…
Presentation of the subject for discussion 1. The world conferences organized by the United Nations in the last part of the 20th century represent an effort to define an agenda for public policy and international cooperation in a globalizing world…