3 – DIFFERENCES OF CAPABILITIES AMONG HUMAN BEINGS – The Studies of Philip E. Converse – Breadth Levels in Political Understanding – The Differences: Constraint Quantification in Belief Systems – The Differences: Elements of Greater Centrality – The Differences: Organizational Role of Abstract Concepts – The Differences: Breadth Levels in Converse’s Categories – Level I:… Read More
Categoria: Democracy of the Future
What Is Wrong with Politcs? (2): Unity Underlying Humanity
2 – UNITY UNDERLYING HUMANITY – Unity and Diversity in the Religious Traditions – Buddhism – Christianity – Confucianism – Hinduism – Islamism – Judaism – Taoism – Shintoism – Unity in the Contemporary Sciences Unity and Diversity in the Religious Traditions A worldview that contemplates an essential unity in relation to the deep nature… Read More
Thrice Fortunate They Who Can Break Through the Vicious Circle of Modern Influence
“All you can do is to prepare the intellect: the impulse toward “soul-culture” must be furnished by the individual. Thrice fortunate they who can break through the vicious circle of modern influence and come up above the vapours!” (K.H. In T. Baker, editor. The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett, letter n. 35, p. 247; emphasis added)
Human Nature in General Is the Same Now As a Million Years Ago
“As for human nature in general, it is the same now as it was a million of years ago: Prejudice based upon selfishness; a general unwillingness to give up an established order of things for new modes of life and thought — and occult study requires all that and much more — pride and stubborn… Read More
What Is Wrong with Politcs? (1): Index of Chapters and Introduction
WHAT IS WRONG WITH POLITICS? BASES FOR A TRUE DEMOCRACY Note for the current version (for the Internet): At the moment, this is the fundational work on Humanitarianism. In its chapters, the bases of the social philosophy called Humanitarianism are exposed, albeit synthetically. What Is Wrong with Politics? Bases for a True Democracy Arnaldo Sisson… Read More
The Problems Affecting the Lives of the Masses Should Be the Main Study of Every Young Idealist
“In an ancient land like India, where there are today so many religions, there is no need to add any teaching that can be termed new. (…) Yet if you examine all these teachings, you will note that in the main they concentrate on the life of the individual, and not particularly on his relations… Read More
Principle that Will Guide the State Will Be the Law of Universal Brotherhood
In several posts on this site, as well as on other sites and works, we bring a set of information that allow us to clearly understand how the Diversity of levels of psycho-spiritual development is one of the fundamental aspects of the Law of Universal Brotherhood of Humanity. This aspect of Diversity is just as… Read More
The Universal Brotherhood of Humanity Is Very Similar to Relationships in a Family
“But this Brotherhood of all souls is like the relation of brotherhood within a family; brothers are not all of the same age, though they are of the same parents.” (C. Jinarajadasa. Practical Theosophy, p. 63; emphasis added)
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (18): Bibliography, Our Sites and Pages
BIBLIOGRAPHY, OUR SITES AND PAGES (of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) BACON, F. The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon. London, G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1911. 567 pp. BARKER, A.T., comp. The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett. Pasadena, Theosophical University Press, 1975. 589 pp. BESANT, A. Man and His Bodies.… Read More
To Justify Absolutism, Hobbes Starts From the “Homo Homini Lupus”
Liberalism appears as a reaction to the Absolutist order, and one of the last great theorists of Absolutism was Thomas Hobbes, author of the famous work The Leviathan (1651), who conceived the human being as naturally selfish, if not violent, as we can read in quote that follows: “In order to justify absolute government, Hobbes… Read More