The Question
Question2: “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 the real tragedy today almost a hundred years later?
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 urgency was echoed in the Normandy Manifesto for World Peace issued by Nobel Peace Laureates and others in 2019. Now, perhaps more than ever before, this question demands a fresh and honest answer.”