Three Streams
The living soul will be aware of ethical and moral norms; with others, it will closely share the good and justice that it forms.
A spirit they will build for dreams that hold the future for the world, a well of values, spring of streams, where action-flows will be unfurled.
Three rivers flow through human life: the thinking mind that holds the soul, in happiness and burdened strife, in trade with labour and with gold.
As citizens promoting norms through ranks of institutions
as governments will see reforms to find long-term solutions.
The streams will join from all three sources, free peoples in consenting grace to share and pool their just resources in a true Gemeinschaft by embrace.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
world without war
I saw what happened in WWII, and thought at the time that it must be possible to have a world without war. I was 16 at the end of the war, and decided that one day I write a book that will find a solution. After a busy professional life, I finally found the time to do it. It is called "world without war, made possible by empowered individuals", and is available from amazon.com:
http://amzn.to/aSZhi1
In this blog I will talk about aspects of the book, and hope it will stimulate some discussion.
There are basically three streams of life or "cultures of commitment", all of them need to be looked at to get a holistic answer. They are:
If we want to achieve consensus, then we need to look at the basic moral or ethic values that guide all activities. Most people would agree that the Golden Rule is ubiquitous, as it applies reciprocity to the way we interact with others: I won't do to yo what I don't want you to do to me, or treat other as you want them to treat you. This is a rather simple way of establishing our basic moral or ethic values, but it is a start, as it leads us to become aware of and identify other sets of norms including justice and the 'good'.
Once we have become aware of these norms and adopt them for our actions, we can go out in the world and find other individual;s that have similar norms. As we agree with them on such norms, we have created a "social normativity", which I call the "worldsoul". This then is the basis of all you actions, whether in the family or the world as a whole. All your activities are guided by your normativity, and it remains your responsibility to guard those values.
Your life world may be in one of the three "cultures of commitment", and you need to develop specific principles for each of them to have a clear pathway for your values to be applied.
http://amzn.to/aSZhi1
In this blog I will talk about aspects of the book, and hope it will stimulate some discussion.
There are basically three streams of life or "cultures of commitment", all of them need to be looked at to get a holistic answer. They are:
- Spirituality
- Commerce, and
- Government
If we want to achieve consensus, then we need to look at the basic moral or ethic values that guide all activities. Most people would agree that the Golden Rule is ubiquitous, as it applies reciprocity to the way we interact with others: I won't do to yo what I don't want you to do to me, or treat other as you want them to treat you. This is a rather simple way of establishing our basic moral or ethic values, but it is a start, as it leads us to become aware of and identify other sets of norms including justice and the 'good'.
Once we have become aware of these norms and adopt them for our actions, we can go out in the world and find other individual;s that have similar norms. As we agree with them on such norms, we have created a "social normativity", which I call the "worldsoul". This then is the basis of all you actions, whether in the family or the world as a whole. All your activities are guided by your normativity, and it remains your responsibility to guard those values.
Your life world may be in one of the three "cultures of commitment", and you need to develop specific principles for each of them to have a clear pathway for your values to be applied.
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