Talk:Living Together Research Proposal

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Revision as of 09:05, 4 January 2008 by Milan (talk | contribs) (aims now covered in proposal)

Concepts

  • The main emphasis is political science rather than philosophy, so philosophical concepts will need to be expressed within a political science framework
  • World government is one of the concepts addressed, however we want to avoid implying rigid centralisation. Further potential problems that arise from world government are corruption and the large interfering with the small. Rather, we want to express the idea of a "global" (in the sense of holistic) organisation and how local organisation can scale to world level
  • We need to build a connection between the concept of organic groups and the idea of institutions with a mandate (given how)?

Principles

Discuss from the solution

etc. Place current problems in context of solutions, that is explain why or how a certain approach is taken, contrasting with current problems or discussing the achievement of currently impossible aims.

Conclusion

Global values

Platforms and sanctuaries

The Network

Organisation and governance

Discussion on Proposal

  • 'The Book of Formation' by Abraham - seed of most religions
    • use to establish idea of oneness and same origin for most(all?) religions
  • different religions (e.g. Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism) are talking about the 'Tree of Live'
    • further indicator for same origins
regarding changes made to section 1
  • i do think that political science as such is concerned about creating or how to establish a peaceful, just and prosperous global society. it simply depends on who u ask and what school this scientist follows. i.e. realism, globalism, liberalism, etc. so i think its a bit difficult to support the statement. its true for some schools and scientists but not for all. the variety is enormous. the question is much more what makes it way from the political scientist to those people that do make decisions? here the statement: ' the strengthening of centralised institutions like the world bank, united nations, world trade organisations and the decreasing role of nation-states which will be required to relinquish authority to said global institutions or even a world government' applies. but not to political science as such!
  • talking about corruption and multinational corporates gaining power needs to include the concept/practice of lobbying
  • concept of 'all aspects changeable' is uncommon and unclear to anyone who's not familiar with it. maybe it can rephrased or might not be essential for the proposal?
  • I love the distinguishing between the two forms of global government as it makes it very clear whats new about the thing we want to talk about. as far as i know this concept of localised decision making has been very much neglected. however, we do need to look at currently discussed models of world government.
  • we do need the bridge to the philosophical section, saying that a peaceful, etc world government is not possible without that foundation.
regarding intro
  • i like the idea of observing three people's lives. think that would work really well!
  • cover history of world government as a notion
  • what's the current status of academic discussion?
regarding proposal structure and content
  • (1) Title
  • (2) Current research and discussion
  • (3) Questions and expectations regarding the result, including reasoning why
  • (4) Possible consequences of the results
  • (5) Bibliography
regarding section 1, questions to answer
  • (a)Whats the potential of a world governemnt? why do we need/want one?
  • (b)whats the structure gonna look like and how would it opperate?
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