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Re: Re: Helping for other scales' accountability instead of creating law
Doug EVERINGHAM
Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:07:35
(This message belongs to the topic 1 values and principles)
I agree that we need policies based on ethics, conscience, admiration of beauty and justice and not just on economic, technical and material things and judgments. I think that this implies valuing biological and cultural evolution. I think humanity shares genes with most individual creatures, especially of those species that have survived interdependently with us, and especially (because that is how species cooperate to survive) with fellow humans.
I have reservations, however, about seeing in this a mystical, supernatural cosmic * purpose *.
This concept tends, I fear, to subordinate human capacities to some * absolute * final, unevolvable, unquestionable authority, and such views are the source of the most destructively divisive movements of humanity. I see evolution rather as a ripening of human global potential.
Having reached the point where we can repair, replace and transplant organs, rescue endangered species, restore ecosystems and strive for sustainability, we are broadening the evolutionary concept to include cultural evolution toward a harmonious world community (the sphere of knowledge, reason, esthetics, conscience etc.) as well as a viable biosphere. Our genes are developing combinations with our mutual transcultural concepts that integrate * nature * and * nurture *, biological and cultural (* spiritual *) inheritance of individuals, families, clans and sovereign regimes toward more mature multicultural integration of our species and our global habitat. Those who develop more global sensitivity surely survive better than those who strive first for personal, family, national, philosophical (political, religious etc.) dominance over colleagues and fellow creatures, surviving better due to genetic selection and cultural acceptance.
Doug Everingham
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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