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David Christian at Davos

By March 18, 2013March 20, 2018

David Christian was recently interviewed at Davos, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, where he introduced the Big History curriculum and its benefits for a global civilization.

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Mythos: Origins and Ends
ByEditor September 1, 2011June 7, 2020

Buy online through Amazon: Indic Visions in an Age of Science by Varadaraja V. Raman (New York, NY: Metanexus, 2011). or Download the book for free as a PDF. Introduction Questions related to origins are among the most intriguing ones that taunt the human mind. How did we humans come to be? What is the…

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I Was Hungry, And Ye Gave Me Meat
ByEditor May 9, 2001January 2, 2014

It’s not much fun being a cow or a sheep in Englandat the moment. In fact, it is not much fun being anyone in England at the moment. My wife Lizzie just returned from a week’s trip there, and she found the place a bit like a fortress – or a prison, more like. She…

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Learning-To-Be: Reflections on Bernard Lonergan’s Transcendental Philosophy of Education Towards An Integral Human Existence
ByEditor April 18, 2007July 27, 2014

“Philosophy is the theory of education in its most general sense.”(John Dewey, Democracy and Education) INTRODUCTION The renowned Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan was born Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan on December 17, 1904 in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada. He was of Irish descent. Lonergan joined the Jesuit order in 1922. His comprehensive range of writings…

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The Heritage of Heraclitus & The Itch to Speculate
ByEditor February 13, 2002January 3, 2014

Metanexus: Views. 2002.02.12. 1405 words We continue our special series on the VIEWS list in anticipation of theScience & Ultimate Reality Symposium in Princeton. This symposium in honorof the 90th year of John Archibald Wheeler–a great physicist and teacher ofphysicists–runs from March 15-18, 2002. But before we come to today’s column The Heritage of Heraclitus:…

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The Crisis of Personhood: Why We Need to Broaden Our View
ByEditor May 28, 2008July 27, 2014

Introduction This paper does not deal with the epistemological theory of reductionism itself. Rather, it asks for the ethical consequences and implications of reductionisms in current bioethical debates. The paper acts from the assumption that the concept of personhood acquired in most of nowadays bioethical discussions in Western discourses1 (1) represents an illegitimate ethical reductionism…

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A Blueprint for a Non-Reductionist Theory of Reality
ByEditor September 1, 2011February 8, 2012

There can be no discursive justification for the belief that any particular kind of entities can be independent of all other kinds.

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