Murali

This paper brings out the salient features of Henryk Skolimowski's notion of ecological consciousness. It throws light on the need for the development of the new consciousness known as ecological consciousness, which promises to solve the fundamental environmental problems of the modern society.

Secularism has its origins in Europe. When it was first used at the end of the Thirty Years' War in Europe in 1648, "secularization" referred to the transfer of the properties of the church to the princes. Similar transfer of church properties to the state also formed a part of the achievements of the French Revolution. Later, in England, George Holyoake used the term "secularism" to refer to the rationalist movement of protest which he led in 1851. In its pursuit of the project of Enlightenment

Introducing Value Education at the College level in India is really a challenging task. Because it would be easy to make it at the school level. But AT the college level it demands the creative intervention of the course designer. A lot innovative and critical dimensions need to added in introducing value education at the higher education. This paper will discuss the problems and challenges in that task

Postmodernism is a vibrant movement that has come with a mind-boggling bang on art, culture, politics, history, socio-political-economy, philosophy in the last few decades of twentieth century to dismantle all authoritarian ideologies. It cannot be marked in a single manifesto. It is not easy to define postmodernism. The postmodernists do not have a single perspective or method. Actually postmodernists like Lyotard provoke revolt against modernity by pledging "Let us wage war on totality, let us

Habermas challenged positivistically minded philosophers of science. Habermas distinguished three non reducible quasi transcendental cognitive interests. They are the technical, the practical, and the emancipatory. Each of these cognitive interests is itself rooted in historical rationalization. "The overall

Economics is the most important dimension of globalization, which affects politics, and politics in return affects economics, and both of these affect the cultural dimension of globalization. The cultural trade of goods and services between countries is conducted within the framework of a global economic system. Between the years 1980 and 1998 a 5-time increase in the market for cultural goods and services occurred.

The Buddhist view of the interconnected world demands that the ideal of world peace is less rhetoric at the negotiation tables among some “superpowers” in the international level than starting a personal transformation of one’s daily living. And this peacemaking effort is a continued striving at the every very moment because of the dynamic, constant changing nature of all the possible causal forces in this world.

Liberal capitalism, the super economic, all pervasive model which is promoted and practiced all over the globe today has been subject to severe critical examination by economists, not only due to economic recession but also mainly for destabilizing value systems in countries and becomes responsible for social injustice across the globe.