Our Human Quest for Unity and Freedom
Pathways Toward an Earth Constitution
Published on 1. January 2026
Book
Hardback
234 pages
978-1-0364-6103-4 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this volume emphasize our planetary crises, such as climate collapse and possible nuclear war, in the face of which we must envision a way toward a viable human future. They cover a broad swath of our situation-from spirituality, to cosmology, to evolutionary growth, to ethical imperatives, to philosophy of law, to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, to common sense. They draw on philosophical literature from both West and East, in the East highlighting such figures as Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and several Buddhist thinkers. In the West highlighting such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Teilhard de Chardin, Juergen Habermas, Ken Wilber, and British philosopher, Errol E. Harris. Throughout, they emphasize the "paradigm shift" from Newtonian cosmology to contemporary holistic cosmology. Facing our possible human self-extinction, they focus on the urgent need for uniting humanity under the principle of unity in diversity.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0364-6103-4 (9781036461034)
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Glen T. Martin, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Research Fellow at Radford University in Virginia, USA. His articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Globalization Studies, Philosophy Today, and Mind and Society. Martin is author/editor of 15 books and dozens of articles on spirituality, law, government, world systems, and world federalist theory. His most notable books include Millennium Dawn: The Philosophy of Planetary Crisis and Human Liberation (2005), Ascent to Freedom: Philosophical and Practical Foundations of Democratic World Law (2008), Triumph of Civilization: Democracy, Nonviolence & the Piloting of Spaceship Earth (2010), One World Renaissance: Holistic Planetary Transformation through a Global Social Contract (2016), Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence: The Power of the Future for Planetary Transformation (2018), The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet (2021), and Human Dignity and World Order: The Holistic Foundations of Global Democracy (2024).