“John Locke was born in 1632 and died in 1704; he personified the liberal tendencies against the absolutist ideas of Hobbes. His Essay on Civil Government was published in 1690, less than two years after the second British revolution of 1688. It is understandable that, writing soon after an event of such importance, a political… Read More
Categoria: Democracy of the Future
Until Philosophers Are Kings, Or Genuine and Capable Philosophers Are Sovereigns, There Will Be No Truce From Evils
“I think, I said, that there might be a reform of the State if only one change were made, which is not a slight or easy though still a possible one. What is it? he said. Now then, I said, I go to meet that which I liken to the greatest of the waves; yet… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (15): World Problems and the Law of Universal Brotherhood – The First Object as an Example of Consistent Solution
XV – WORLD PROBLEMS AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: The First Object as an Example of a Consistent Solution (Chapter XV of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 161 – “The truths and mysteries of occultism constitute, indeed, a body of the highest spiritual importance, at once profound and practical for the… Read More
Even a Small Group Can Start an Entirely Different Society
“Why is it that in the home, in the classroom and in the hostel you are always being told what you must do and what you must not do? Surely, it is because your parents and teachers, like the rest of society, have not perceived that man exists for only one purpose, which is to… Read More
Only Small Minority Is Egoically Matured
In his long post on this site Present Evolutionary Stage of Humanity, C.W. Leadbeater informs us that the vast majority of the Higher Selves are still undeveloped in our current evolutionary stage. In this way, only a relatively small minority is capable of transmitting to the personality clear norms of truthfulness, justice and altruism, as… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (14): World Problems and the Law of Universal Brotherhood – Present Political Models and the Creation of Destitution
XIV – WORLD PROBLEMS AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: Present-Day Political Models and the Creation of Destitution (Chapter XIV of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 153 – “There is no intellectual, not even a liberal intellectual, who will be able to deny the evidence that it is possible to put an… Read More
Democracy in Its Present Form Is Irrational and Leads to Endless Confusion
“Clairvoyance enables us to examine a much longer section of the earth’s past history than can be reached along ordinary lines; and this fuller study of the past makes it possible to some extent to forecast by analogy some of the steps in the more immediate future. From such a study of the records it… Read More
Organizational Model (Political etc.) Requires Coherence with Human Capabilities, or Not Worthy of Defense
Professor C.B. Macpherson of the University of Toronto in Canada – in his well-known work The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy – refers as follows to the importance of these assumptions about human beings when considering political systems: “To show that a model of a political system or society, existing or not yet existing,… Read More
Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood and the World Problems (13): World Problems and the Law of Universal Brotherhood – Faults of the Present Political Models
XIII – WORLD PROBLEMS AND THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD: Faults of the Current Political Models (Chapter XIII of the work “Theosophy, the Law of Universal Brotherhood”) 140 – “The Ideal is that the best should rule; but how to find them, that is the problem. Every one of us who studies must try to… Read More
Good Universal Principles Are Sadly Missing in Politics: Disastrously Notorious Thing
“Because politics are the engine by which social reforms are finally brought about, and in the sphere of government, as crucially as in the departments of economics and social reforms, guiding universal principles are as sadly lacking, and the effects of that lack still more disastrously apparent. Still more so, because Government is the final… Read More