wolfgang sassin (2 resultados)

Broschur. Condición: gut. 59 S. mit Abb., 30 cm, gebräunt, Bibliotheksexemplar, Aufkleber, Rücken mit Klebestreifen verstärkt, Dreieckstasche. Sprache: deu.

Paperback. Condición: Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Ever more upheavals and human tsunamis definitely require an unbiased analysis of human plate tectonics ââ,¬â?o and of those driving forces leading to cultural drifts, thereby subduing and melting age-old values. ââ,¬Å"Mankind needs more than one planet to surviveââ,¬ is nothing but sending SOS from an Ark named Planet Earth. Instead homo sapiens must respect basic principles demonstrated by evolution and live up to his own limits. Humanity, understood and striven for as the ultimate WE, has meanwhile become the pacemaker of evolution. But are "man" and "globalization" at all suitable figures of thought that guarantee the survival of homo sapiens? Or are they concepts that already seduced the fathers of the Tower of Babel, if not Adam and Eve when both tasted a few fruits of the tree of cognition promising to control a wider reality?Did the General Assembly of the United Nations really prevent wars since its foundation more than 70 years ago? Or did it not directly contribute to the emergence of a global order relying on the mental determinedness to assure mutual destruction of two emerging world powers? And even more important: Did the Charta of the UN not contribute substantially to those very problems which now endanger the physical survival of mankind that has proliferated without rhyme or reason? Do we not blindly follow a course set by individuals such as Eleanor Roosevelt, StÃf©phane Hessel, or Albert Schweitzer, eventually leading to a world order analogous to the one needed to stabilize a jailhouse ? Even more intriguing: Are worshipped values such as baby love, altruism and permanent economic growth not turning into mental drugs inflicting a planet with a cancerous plague ?These and other questions have led the authors with different cultural backgrounds to reconsider the age-old question: Who are WE? and How can homo sapiens limit himself? at times when both our physical as well as our mental environments develop quite disturbing characteristics ââ,¬â?o turning homo sapiens into an endangered species.