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A positive face of power, and a common minimum of values
Carles MASCARO
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:39 PM
ººº Abstract: Here you are some questions to the forum, more than answers. It
is necessary to look for a positive face of the power, through the forum. The
values that Marie Martin-Pecheux is proposing are acceptable, but maybe they
are too many, given the differences that separate us, and it would be better
to look for a minimum common of values. On the other hand, the problem of
concretization of these values is exposed.ººº
Good afternoon:
These are my questions, more than answers, to our forum.
Purpose: "Parliament's" internal image can induce me to think of a "place of
power" from where, the representatives staying there, will dictate laws "to
the world". I find that I should not to believe myself such an image as a true
one.
Would it be right to conceive a discussion “forum" among human beings?
Although more realistic, neither it seduces me this image: I find it
insufficient for my purpose. My purpose responds to the desire of influencing
so that the human world was fairer and more balanced. There is a component
of "power" therefore, but different to the current one that has made the
present world as it is. Through the WP I would like to find, with all of you,
another way to be influential in the world.
Values: I have already announced them: justice and equilibrium. Perhaps this
is redundant in fact. But I point out "equilibrium" because the justice is
always fragile, if we keep in mind the particular situations and the
continuous changes caused by the human knowledge and for the accidental
circumstances.
We will must to find a common minimum that becomes acceptable for all. Or
perhaps it would be convenient to think about the limits that "at this moment"
we put on as a limit to not passing over. They are different ways to express
the same thing: among human beings, we will must to give "value" to some
relationships or some things or some attitudes that we consider as
characteristic of everybody.
Perhaps the five "primary" values that Marie Martin-Pecheux is proposing, are
too many, specially having in mind that some of them (f.ex. solidarity) is
divided itself in others. Although I agree with them, however we must agree
about the term of "primary" or, as I have said before, "the minimum common".
Principles: Where support these values? What common evidence will allow us to
take them as "source" of the possible law in the long-term? Given the cultural
differences, is it possible an agreement that "ties" our wills? Here, we
should underline our preference in which way for reaching such an agreement: A
mechanism of Western formal democracy? A convention of accepted sages?
the "communities of ideas" that J.-Marc Flament is proposing?
Carles Mascaró
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
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