Centro Mundial de Estudios Humanistas
Opening Speech 8th Symposium of the World Centre for Humanist Studies
Friday, April 16, 2021, the 8th International Symposium of the World Center for Humanist Studies began with a worldwide videoconference: “A new humanism for a new world – plural exchanges from a world in crisis”. The symposium is broadcasted on dedicated Youtube channels. All the details can be seen in… »
“Openness and imagination: the human future towards freedom and uncertainty”, Roberta Consilvio
We publish here the paper presented by Roberta Consilvio, researcher at the Salvatore Puledda World Centre for Humanist Studies, in the framework of the International Symposium held virtually today Friday 16 April, tomorrow Saturday 17 and Sunday 18. INTRODUCTION Good Morning everyone. Let me thank the many people… »
The World Center for Humanist Studies launches a campaign to endorse the Humanist Document
“Throughout history, human beings have been the protagonists of many revolutions in many fields. These evolutionary, non-linear leaps have occurred at times when social organization and current values were no longer able to respond to the needs of growing human groups. This is the situation we are living in today… »
“Learning to be Human”: The 24th World Congress of Philosophy Beijing has begun
The 24th World Congress of Philosophy began on August 13 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The conclave of thought meets under the motto “Learning to be Human” and will take place throughout the week, to be closed on the 20th. The planned panels promise a very… »
Heroism, terrorism and social violence: Notes in political psychology III
The times of Renaissance and Enlightenment were reactions to the agricultural civilization’s system crisis and thus re-claimed the ancient rationalist thinking; this made Europe the leader of the historical evolution. The “grown-up” moral motivations were newly gaining strength together with the critical thinking. True, the humans had not yet learned… »
Heroism, terrorism and social violence: Notes in political psychology II
Akop P. Nazaretyan.- The faith in posthumous life (first that of other individuals and then of one’s own) has accompanied the history of the Homo genus for more than two million years; in an anthropological version, it radically contributed to the early Homo’s viability [8, 9]. Much later, in the… »
Heroism, terrorism and social violence: Notes in political psychology I
Akop P. Nazaretyan.- Behavioral and psychological difference between the terrorists of the 1990 – 2010s and the ones of the 1950 – 1980s reflects a worldwide trend towards increasingly primitive political thinking. The structure and logic of religious motivations and the literal faith in afterlife rewards make terrorists’ activities more… »
Third International Symposium: Big History and Global Evolution
In the framework of the International Congress Globalistics 2017, organized by the Faculty of Global Studies of Moscow Lomonosov University, the Third International Symposium on Big History and Global Evolution was held from 26 to 28 September. Promoted by the Eurasian Center for Big History and System Forecasting and in… »
The potential of human consciousness
Presentation by Fulvio De Vita, Member of the “Salvatorre Puledda” Centre of Studies*, in the Third International Symposium ‘Big History and Global Evolution’. Good morning everybody. First of all, let me thank the Eurasian Center for Big History and Forecasting, and Lomonosov University of Moscow for… »
Paths to nuclear disarmament, a case of convergence in diversity
Under this name, the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs held an international seminar, gathering together diverse views of nuclear disarmament experts in the fields of: nuclear-weapon-free zones; the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); the relationship between human security and international humanitarian law; the Ban Treaty proposed by civil society along with all… »