As indicated in the letter of the coordinator of the Circle dated 16 November 2006, the subject for discussion at this gathering is "Work and Employment: their Meaning and Characteristics in a Changing World". A shorter title for such subject…
This was the first meeting of the Triglav Circle outside of the United States since the UN seminar in Bled, Slovenia, that launched the Circle. Conducted in French and in English, it was attended by twenty participants, a few of…
Two themes for discussion are proposed: What are the contours and characteristics of the global civil society? What is a simpler life style and what type of economy(ies) would it imply? First Theme: Why looking for simpler life-styles? Three sets…
As indicated in the letter of invitation sent by Email in October, the subject for discussion at this meeting is Human Flourishing and Social Justice. Human flourishing is a concept that has often been mentioned in debates of the Circle,…
Triglav Circle, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 25-26 February 2005 - Agenda Moral Dimensions of the Public Discourse: the Legacy of the Social Summit Revisited Hosted by the Harvard Yenching Institute and its Director Tu Wei Ming, this meeting was attended by twenty-five…
THE REPORT Three themes were proposed in the agenda: moral philosophy and the spirit of the time; moral issues in the political discourse; and, relevance of the values advocated by the Social Summit. The starting point was the observation that…
21 February 2005 Project of a workshop/conference on The moral and spiritual dimensions of the work of the United Nations on matters of development and social progress Presented by the Triglav Circle, a non-governmental organization with consultative status with the UN…
Introduction There is nothing mysterious about the faculty of idealization, whether in the individual or in the group. This faculty is not a sort of luxury, which man could do without, but a condition of his existence. If he had…
The Triglav Circle held its meeting at the Harvard-Yenching Institute on the 12th and 13th of March. The theme for discussion was: the meaning of life and the purpose of society, as concepts to be taken into account in the…
Vaclav Havel wrote that only “humankind’s understanding of its place in the world will allow the development of new models of behavior, sets and scales of values, and objectives in life.” There are many challenges to considering so weighty a…