One World Renaissance
Subtitle: Holistic Planetary Transformation through a Global Social Contract
Publisher: Institute for Democracy Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Appomattox, Virginia
Format: Paperback and Ebook
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: Paperback: 9781933567501 ($21.00) E-Book: 9781933567518 ($7.00)
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: 1 Emergent Cosmic Holism; title: 1.1 The Universe Story and the Rediscovery of Harmony; title: 1.2 Holism, Harmony, and Global Crises; title: 1.3 The Age of Static Holism (Ancient and Medieval World Views); title: 1.4 The Age of Fragmentation (Early-Modern World Views); title: 1.5 Some critiques of the Early-Modern System; title: 1.6 The Age of Evolutionary Holism and the New Universe Story; title: 2 Holism and Ethics; title: 2.1 Evolutionary Holism: The Emergence of Reason and Freedom; title: 2.2 The Reintegration of Fact and Value; title: 2.3 An Ethics of Liberation; title: 2.4 The Present World Disorder as the Denial of Internal Relationships; title: 2.5 Realism versus Utopia; title: 3 Legal Holism: The Rule of Law and Universal Harmony; title: 3.1 Forerunners of Legal Holism; title: 3.2 Legal Holism; title: 3.3 Consequences of this Paradigm-Shift in the Concepts of Government and Law; title: 3.4 The Presuppositional Status of Democratic World Law; title: 4 From Disorder, No Order Can Emerge; title: 4.1 World Disorder and the Universality of Law; title: 4.2 Five Fundamental Principles of Order: Universality, Unity-in-Diversity, Human Flourishing, Reason and Love, and dialog; title: 4.3 Summary and Conclusion; title: 5 Sovereignty and the “Moral Autonomy” of Nations: Trashing the Rule of Law Everywhere on Earth; title: 5.1 Private Morality versus Public Law; title: 5.2 The Rule of Law Among Nations After 9/11; title: 5.3 Private and State Terrorism; title: 5.4 Conclusion; title: 6 Economics, and the Earth Constitution as a Blueprint; title: 6.1 The World’s Current Unsustainable Debt-based Monetary System; title: 6.2 The World Financial Administration and Sustainable Economics; title: 7 The Question of Power in Relation to Global Government: Is There a Threat of Global Tyranny?; title: 7.1 Conditions Fostering the Rise of Totalitarianism; title: 7.2 The Earth Constitution and Paradigms of Power; title: 7.3 The Question of an “Outside” to the System; title: 7.4 Legitimate Power as the Alternative to Violence; title: 7.5 Power as Qualitative rather than Quantitative; title: 7.6 Self-Limiting Features of the Earth Federation Government; title: 7.7 Education as Empowerment; title: 8 Holism and Eschatology: Transforming the World’s War System to a World Peace System and Breaking the Hold of One-Dimensional Thinking; title: 8.1 Totality; title: 8.2 An Absolute Command; title: 8.3 Beyond the Totality; title: 8.4 Nonviolence andWorld Transformation; title: 8.5 TheWorld System; title: 8.6 Eschatology andWorld Transformation; title: 8.7 Our Global Social Contract; title: 9 Twenty-First Century Renaissance: The Reconciliation of Reason, Intuition, and Love; title: 9.1 Reason and Intuition; title: 9.2 Mystery, Astonishment, andWonder; title: 9.3 Holism and Consciousness; title: 9.4 Holism and Freedom in the Thought of Hans Jonas; title: 9.5 Holism and Love; title: Epilogue