This article investigates how participatory foresight methods, particularly scenario-based games, can surface, challenge, and reconfigure our assumptions about ethical leadership and moral systems in imagined futures. Click to read more…
Neohumanism
I Exist, Therefore I Am Worthy
Self-esteem is one of the most influential constructs across social and psychological sciences. The article situates existential self-esteem within Shri Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar’s philosophy of Neohumanism, according to which the existential worth of an individual should be considered as being derived directly from the Cosmic Consciousness, the Universal source of all worth. Click to read more…
Neohumanism
The idea of neohumanism emerged from the need to extend human existential outlook and vision beyond the borders of “humanity for the sake of humans”. Neohumanism is a Renaissance idea, the rebirth and rethinking of the human being in an integrated three-fold world: physical, psychic and spiritual. Click to read more…
Awakened Conscience
The first step towards the establishment of Neohumanism is study; the second step is rationalistic mentality. I will hear something, then analyse its positive and negative sides through rational analysis… and in the third stage, you arrive at “blissful or non-blissful, auxiliary or non-auxiliary.” When you complete this whole process of logical reasoning, the outcome is your “awakened conscience”. Click to read more…
The Principle of Social Equality
It is futile to think of an individualʼs past; we must not discriminate whether one is black or white. We should only remember that we must establish ourselves in the ultimate reality, by forming a new social order based on social equality. When we have attained the physical strength, psychic intellect and spiritual wisdom to materialize it – should we not play a successful role to implement this noble and sublime ideal? Click to read more…
Devotional Sentiment and Neohumanism
Present-day humanity has, no doubt, made considerable intellectual progress. But in the external world, there is a lack of adjustment. This is the reason that among the educated people of today the number of lunatics – people suffering from psychic disorders – is on the increase: because there is no adjustment in the speeds of the inner and outer worlds. Click to read more…
The Status of Inanimation in the Philosophy of Neohumanism
“That golden day is sure to come when that perfect stage of structure, that is, unit existence in the intra-atomic world, will be reached, when human intuition will realize that the essence in the sub-atomic world is pure Consciousness.” Click to read more…
Sentiments
Positive sentiments are synthetic in nature. They unite society and elevate humanity, enhance collective interests and encourage progressive development. Negative sentiments are narrow in scope and divide society. Some important positive sentiments include anti-exploitation sentiment, revolutionary sentiment, moral sentiment, cultural sentiment, universal sentiment and spiritual sentiment. Some negative sentiments include communalism, patriotism, nationalism, provincialism, lingualism and racism. Click to read more…
Neohumanist Philosophy
Neohumanism offers a strong critique of nationalism, sexism, specism, capitalism and racism. As an ethical system its emphasis is on an integrated world view that urges us to embrace all experience of the phenomenal world reverentially. As a way of knowing it breaks the bounds of humanism, to include the rights and liberties of the entire phenomenal world. Click to read more…
Neohumanism: Panacea for Global Malaise
Neohumanism would remain a mere ideal, or a utopia, unless the human mind expands. Spirituality must be practised to progressively expand the ‘mind ’, which broadens the frontier of empathy and increases identification with the so-called ‘other’. Eventually, one finds peace with the rest of creation. Click to read more…