 Psychology started out as a science under the burden of a positivistic mimetism of the natural sciences. It was born in defining and delimiting an object (psychological man) which it receives historically through the civilisation of man, and through a lengthy culture of concepts and communication, as that has been structured chiefly by the trends of philosophy. |
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 The generally-held conviction of the average man that he is a supporter of peace and of reason is false.
The conviction also that technical progress would bring about psychological progress has been contradicted by reality. Evidence of this is provided by constant military conflicts, national aggressiveness - with or without pretexts - the violent looting of the mineral resources of countries which have previously been steamrollered 'in the interests of' democracy - and so on.
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 Introduction - Sexuality as inequality and as a means
Sex and money are the two poles of everyday and constant interest on the part of today's world. And both have always been - particularly sex. It is worth asking ourselves - about sex - why this is. Is this a form of progress, or a fixation? Is there true freedom of sexuality today? To begin with, it could be said that the sexual instinct is a life instinct which tends towards maintaining life through its reproduction.
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 Both the theory of 'free markets' and that of Marxism have idealised the aspect on which they have laid emphasis. They have overlooked the fact that, in order to work, their theory must take into account the human psyche in its entirety. |
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 Man has built up the concepts of the economic process according to his experience. The sciences of man acknowledge the world of experience and points of crisis in history as a supreme principle and source of knowledge, in contrast with the approaches and pursuits of scholasticism. |
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 We propose a series of eight points for the global, integrated handling of the problem of climate change and the environmental crisis, denoting our advance agreement to anything, general or particular which reflects and is in harmony with this framework – and which can be systematically analysed.
These points are:
1. Detachment and minimisation of demand and production, environmentally and socially, which will be fair and orientated to all the causes, sources, and roots of the enlargement of demand and production.
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 Evil in history has been expressed both in individual and collective forms. By way of indication, collectivities of evil have been expressed in politics as vehicles of racism and nationalism and in religion as vehicles of violent fanaticism, such as the Holy Inquisition. As to the individual forms of evil, these have usually expressed absolute bodily, ideological, and sexist exploitation of man by man. In history also there have frequently been those who have exploited the guise of modernity in order to justify policies which have as their final aim the concentration of power and money with an egocentric power elite.
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In regarding the planetic field as one of spiritual entity and unity, it is important that we should point out two things:
First, humanity has entered definitively upon an economic crisis, having set in motion the environmental crisis in parallel.
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It must reasonably be asked about this freedom:
(a) Is its aim the free movement of goods for the benefit of all, or chiefly the freedom of profiteering of traders? These are two entirely different things, although they may be coincidentally, but impermanently, concurrent in the second instance.
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 “The history of man’s attempts to subjugate nature is the history of the subjugation of man by man.”
Max Horkheimer
(rephrasing Engels, who had spoken about violence in relationships)
This chapter focuses attention on the broader whole, the green economy, and the conditions which determine it, since it is through the green economy that sustainable enterprise develops and emerges.
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 There is a 'road map' to the exit from the authority of economic theories and their impact on individual life of everyone and at international level generally. In this article, we shall see, inter alia, how Keynes - in spite of the hybrid character of his theory – could not avoid the idealisation of his model. We shall also see the distortion of the markets of every type by the politico-military complex and the phenomenon of corruption common to the whole human race, the interrelation between doctrine and climate change, and the totalitarian nature of the major concentrations of money.
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 Our aim in this article is to identify, with immediacy, the roots on which the alienating state of education has been founded.
The history of education starts out from the primitive family, in which the child copies his parent - though unconsciously. This imitation magnetises him to the experiences of his parents. It is difficult for us to derive any more information from the obscure beginnings of pedagogy, which are buried in the rust of the subconscious of mankind. If we take man as an imitator, we must, first of all, regard him as an observer and then as an imitator and creator.
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 The concept of the city derives its origin from the biotope and the seat of man, but also generally from the seat and biotope of the species, both collectively and individually.For man the particularity is that property, institutions, and land are conceived in a contractual sense. He conceives, that is, of a new dynamic, in parallel with that dynamic which develops in the ecosystems. At the same time, his alienation and detachment from nature, with its positive and negative impacts, has shaped the basis for a ghettoisation, for an exiling of nature - a divisive approach. This divisive approach goes back into the depths of history, beginning from the great cities of Sumeria and of other regions with, in the end, a shallow historical depth in Western and Northern Europe, where the interdependence of man and nature has been much more marked.
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 The present worsening of the economic crisis has so much preoccupied people's minds - reasonably enough - that it has literally wiped the problem of the environmental crisis from the field of their concerns. And yet, just as the economic crisis took by surprise the relatively prosperous West, so, but in a much worse way, will the environmental crisis take it by surprise. This is not a disaster scenario, but one which is based on facts. What is still not known is the exact time when the seriousness of environmental events will be subversive not only in this area of life, but in all areas without exception - the economic included. |
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 In the Old Testament, at the beginning of Genesis, we encounter the well-known passage in which God, having created man, gives him His blessing with these words: "'Be fruitful and increase, fill the earth and subdue it, rule over the fish in the sea, the birds of heaven, and every living thing that moves upon earth.' God also said, 'I give you all plants that bear seed everywhere on earth, and every tree bearing fruit which yields seed: they shall be yours for food.'"[1]
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 The twentieth century brought to prominence the economic field as the field of shift of the anthropological deficit into the dynamic of the economic system and the binding of man to it. Our individualism as a field of socio-psychological expression of our personality has been invested primarily in the economy. Our personality has been consumed in the theatre of consumption, both by the ostentation of the brand-name of the products acquired and the ostentation of wealth more generally.
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 Crises are not overcome angry thinking and reaction or by constant comparison and by a feeling of inferiority with regard to others, but by a sound comprehension, individually and collectively, of the actual situation and with the truth and the fundamental principles of life as the sole judge. These fundamental principles are unfailingly moral, though they bear no relation to conventional petty social morality. We believe that these principles for our times are: Liberty - Equality - Fraternity. |
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 External effects and the highlighting of the human factor in democracy
The issue of externalities is also profoundly democratic, as it injects necessity and acts as a factor for promoting the necessity and need for negotiation. On this basis, it is also capable of revitalising its scientific issues and criteria, its scientific approaches and the Labour Movement –as the whole of society and the alternative movements are now beginning to bring to light core necessities for changes.
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 Education in the history of mankind has had two basic aspects:
A. One aspect has been that education which has been associated with human creativity and freedom, and which has been met with at certain junctures in small numbers of creative thinkers in all periods. It has been a relationship of spiritual discipleship with a substantive dimension of self-education of man.
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 Sustainable Enterprise sets out from the recently expressed human need for quality of life, which inevitably presupposes a sound state of the environment. This need leads to the demand for new products and services and requires a general change in the economy. Involved in sustainable enterprise are many partners, even the state, but with the role of the private sector and of local government predominant.
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