INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND TRANSHUMANISM. UNESCO AND EVOLUTIONARY HUMANISM
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND TRANSHUMANISM. UNESCO AND EVOLUTIONARY HUMANISM
Author(s): Mihail UngheanuSubject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, History and theory of sociology
Published by: Ediktura Beladi
Keywords: enchantment; religion; tyranny; totalitarianism; social engineering;
Summary/Abstract: The last century has seen the implementation of totalitarian and despotic regimes all over the world, Eastern Europe, the former czarist empire, and China being some good examples in this sense. The lure of utopia has led to the imposition of regimes and ideologies that caused an infinite amount of pain and suffering without delivering the promised goods. Although Marxism and Communism (albeit not only them but also Fascism, Nazism, and a few others) as such are materialistic and atheistic, they function like a religion and have enchanted the minds and hearts of many. The present-day world is not dis-enchanted and the sacred banned from it. It has shifted. This enchantment has produced other totalitarian and despotic ideologies that are rooted deep in the past. Their expression are new kinds of religion. An example thereof can be seen in Julian Huxley’s evolutionary humanism and the blueprint for UNESCO, which must build the condition for unifying the world mind and allow man to be the steward or lord of the evolution.
Journal: Revista Universitară de Sociologie
- Issue Year: X/2024
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 236-244
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
