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The pathological search for benefit and power
One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Now it is a vivid and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the ...
One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Now it is a vivid and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the ...
Daniel Dennett is a philosopher and writer of American origin. Doctor and professor of philosophy, has been one of the leading thinkers in philosophy of science and cognitive ...
The Universal Basic Income is a theory, in relation with economic policy. Although there are numerous precursors —Paine, Fourier, Van Parijs, More, Tobin— in Spain ...
The irony appears from the beginning and over a black background and with stark cynicism we can read 'This is not a fiction film', 'There is a place called the Island of ...
José Luis Sampedro was a writer, humanist and Spanish economist who advocated an economy 'more humane, more caring, able to contribute to developing the dignity of ...
'Freedom as we know it, without limits, will not exist in 30 or 50 years'. Chief Economist in the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNDP —United Nations ...
'To survive, we have to replace competition for collaboration'. A Computer engineer, he has worked for over 40 years in several areas within the field of Technology on ...
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. He survived from 1942 to 1945 in several Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau, and from that ...
Freedom is one of the most easily raised concepts. But we do not choose to exist, or the environment we grow up in. Our starting point in life is one of passive reliance on ...
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher and activist. Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the MIT —Massachusetts Institute of Technology—, he is considered one ...
Aldous Huxley was a British writer. Well known for his novels and essays, especially the famous 'Brave new world', also published short stories, poems, travel books and ...
The work of Jose Carlos Meirelles is to document the existence of uncontacted tribes in the Amazon and protect them from contact with non-Indians. The advance of economic ...
'If we do not take our individual responsibility, we will end up in the hands of the authority and the power'. One of the most read writers in the world, with over 140 ...
Jiddu Krishnamurti was a well-known Indian philosopher and writer. His work deals with issues such as the psychology revolution, the purpose of meditation, human ...
José Saramago was a Portuguese novelist, poet, journalist and playwright. In 1998 he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy highlighted his ...