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Humane Civilization
  • CONTENTS, Principal Endeavor of HCW, Mission Statement
  •  Preface / Introduction
  • Blog
    • Politics and Human Rights; Climate emergency
    • Abuse-Addiction
    • Mental Health
  • Chapter 1 – Economic Issues; Climate Change; Human needs
    • Chapter 1.1 Modern Economic Institutions: A Short Historical Perspective; Two Models of Development
    • Chapter 1.2 Human Nature and Economic Behaviors
    • Chapter 1.3 Money: The function of money; positive money or real money versus credits
    • Chapter 1.4 Interests and Investment Earnings
    • Chapter 1.5 Economic Progress
    • Chapter 1.6 Economic Units: Structure, Size and Interactions
    • Chapter 1.7 Economic Goals, Economic Stability
  • Chapter 2 – Problems of Modern Democratic Institutions & Legal Systems
    • 2.0 Summary
    • 2.1 Some Major Problems of Modern Cultures
    • 2.2 Corruption and Terrorism
    • 2.3 Multicultural Communities
    • 2.4 Problematic Political Institutions
    • 2.5 Adversarial Legal Systems
  • Chapter 3 – Philosophical-Scientific Basis of Political Thoughts; Natural Ethics
    • 3.0 Summary
    • 3.1 Introductory Thoughts on Human Nature, Ethics and Religion
    • 3.2 Human Nature
    • 3.3 Human Instincts and Culture; Psychiatric Problems
    • 3.4 Global or Natural Ethics
    • 3.5 Ethics and Political Institutions
    • 3.6 Quality of Life: Simplicity, Comfort versus Pain, and Meaning in Life
    • 3.6 Quality of Life: Simplicity, Comfort versus Pain, and Meaning in Life
  • Chapter 4 – Model Framework of Economic, Legal and Political Institutions
    • 4.0 Summary and Outline of a Proposed Constitution
    • 4.1 Utopias Versus Realistic Model Institutions
    • 4.2 Economic Institutions: Money Supply and Industries. The Failure to effectively Addressing Global Warming
    • 4.3 System of Taxation; Minimum Basic Income; Incentives for and Limitations on Economic Activities
    • 4.4 Social Organization
    • 4.5 Improved Democratic Governance
    • 4.6 Ethics, Psychology and the Legal System; Crime Prevention
    • 4.7 International Organizations
  • Chapter 5 – Moving Towards the Proposed Changes
    • 5.1 Local and Global Action
    • 5.2 Issues in Economic Transition
    • 5.3 Transforming Social and Political Institutions
    • 5.4 Advancing Ethical Standards
    • 5.5 Changing Legal Systems
    • 5.6 Some Issues of Transition in Poor Regions and Areas with High Unemployment
  • Appendix A: Poverty & Hunger in Economic Theories
  • Appendix B: to be added
  • Appendix C: to be added
  • Appendix D : The Human Brain, Volition, Feelings and Ethics
  • Appendix E: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Political articles: ecology, climate change, letters
    • Open letter to politicians, organization leaders and scientists: climate emergency
    • Open letter to politicians, organization leaders, and scientists: Covid-19 pandemic
  • Comprehensive Family Planning – Abortion Issue
  • Abuse-addiction articles
  • Abuse-addiction; PTSD, vulnerability factors
  • Abuse-addiction: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)

Month: April 2020

Response to Pandemic’s economic consequences, ethics, broader implications

April 8, 2020 Heinz Leave a comment

open letter to politicians, organization leaders, and scientists  –  covid-19 pandemic    Regarding the “lock-down” to fight the spread of…

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