Rene Wadlow's Blog – December 2009 Archive (2)

Spirituality and Political Action (Book Review)

Jude M. Antonyappan

The Way It IS

(Center for Social Action Through Spirituality

PO Box 601614, Sacramento, CA 95860, 2001, 223pp.).

Mary Byles in her book on the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, The Lotus and the Spinning Wheel, writes “There is a middle way between rushing in trying to effect reforms when still filled with feelings of innate hatred and ill-will and not trying to effect those reforms at all until such feelings have been killed. It will always be… Continue

Added by Rene Wadlow on December 5, 2009 at 7:51am — No Comments

10 December -Human Rights Day

If synthesis is to be a major aspect of the coming age, it is useful to look at an important ealier effort at synthesis -that of the Roman Stoics. From the discussions and differeing philosophical traditions found in the Mediterranean world, they developed the concept of the person and then the citizen, concepts which have come down to us as pointed out in this essay marking December 10 -Human Rights Day;

Human Rights: The Emergence of the Person

Rene Wadlow

All human… Continue

Added by Rene Wadlow on December 3, 2009 at 5:49am — No Comments