Can we imagine there’s no countries, nothing to kill or die for?
Explore More Questions Question 3: “Can we imagine there’s no countries, nothing to kill or die for?” Fifty years ago, John Lennon urged us to imagine that there were no countries. The nation state is proving incapable of solving civilizational scale problems such as climate, pandemic, arms race, technological overreach. In a recent book, Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman […]
What is the Real Tragedy?
Explore More Questions Question 2: “What is the Real Tragedy?” Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, poet and Nobel Laureate, said in the Hibbert Lectures delivered at Oxford University in May 1930. “The real tragedy, however, does not lie in the risk of our material security but in the obscuration of man himself in the human world.” What […]
Is there any way of delivering humankind from the menace of war?
Explore More Questions Question1: Is there any way of delivering humankind from the menace of war? Albert Einstein posed this question to Sigmund Freud in a letter written in 1932. It resurfaced in the 1955 Einstein–Russell Manifesto, which asked starkly: “Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?”The same moral […]