Yehezkel Dror

Steering Human Evolution (eBook, ePUB)

Eighteen Theses on Homo Sapiens Metamorphosis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Being both interdisciplinary and based on personal experience of the author, this book adds up to a novel paradigm on steering human evolution. It will be of great interest to scholars of modern history, evolution sciences, future studies, political sciences, philosophy of action, and science, and technology and the general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000055597
• Artikelnr.: 59399611

Autorenporträt

Yehezkel Dror, a contemplative policy scientist, was born in 1928 and has lived in Israel since 1938. He holds a BA and Magister Juris from Hebrew University, and an LLM and SJD from Harvard University. He is emeritus professor of political science and public administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He won the Israel Prize in 2005 and has been an adviser to Israeli prime ministers. The founding president of Jewish People Policy Institute, he also serves as an international consultant on policy planning and has been a mentor to senior political leaders.

is the author of the books Public Policymaking Reexamined, Capacities to Govern, Crazy States, Israeli Statecraft and For Rulers. He is also Honorary Member, Club of Rome; Emeritus Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science; and Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Thesis One: there is total novelty under the sun:
meta-evolution 2. Thesis Two: humankind is Homo creator 3. Thesis Three:
humanity probably fails supermind test 4. Thesis Four: action now! Fateful
neogenesis challenges 5. Thesis Five: action delayed: ripening neogenesis
challenges 6. Thesis Six: tumbling into metamorphosis 7. Thesis Seven:
stunned humanity will convulse 8. Thesis Eight: between kismet and karma 9.
Thesis Nine: steering human evolution, however hazardous, is mandatory 10.
Thesis Ten: 'who shall decide' is the historic question 11. Thesis Eleven:
political leaders 2.0 are the main answer 12. Thesis Twelve: pluralist
decision teams transform governance 13. Thesis Thirteen: without a global
humankind-protecting regime the future is grim 14. Thesis Fourteen:
humanity-craft guides evolution steering 15. Thesis Fifteen: rights of
future require human duties now 16. Thesis Sixteen: globally demos is the
foundation 17. Thesis Seventeen: motivation is the master-key 18. Thesis
Eighteen: contained catastrophes are our best chance Epilogue: without a
Second Axial Age progress may lead into spiritual wilderness