Fundamantal Strategy
Are we able to change attitudes radically on the basis of insight and compassion which would be rooted in a comprehensive “Theory of Mind“?
Six Interdisciplinary Areas have been singeld out in order to go into a careful analysis and develop attitudes and structures to contribute to solutions. The analysis will start historically (areas 1-2), move on to basis anthropological and psychological and structural questions (areas 3-4) and end up with possible solutions in the field of mentality training, education and reform of economic structures (areas 5-6).
Human action is based on mental attitudes, expectations, fears on ways of thinking. World cultures have developed models of life such as dualistic and non-dualistic perceptions of reality. Did those models have an influence on their way of acting with and within nature? Any why did civilizations perish though they might have had an „ecological“ world view? No doubt, aggressivity and greed are driving human forces, they might be considered as agents of survival in biological competition. However, biological and social systems also need coherence, binding, integration of contradicting interests, compassion and complex social cooperation in order to flourish and survive. The question whether humans have a free will to make decisions that are going beyond the interests of satisfying immediate has been debated for centuries and is a topic at the hub of present Philosophy, Religious Studies and Neuroscience. Are we able to change attitudes radically on the basis of insight and compassion which would be rooted in a comprehensive "Theory of Mind"? Is competion the basis motor of all cultural-economic activity, or is it to be balanced out by systemic cooperation? More so, is competion perhaps just one strategy in a wider framework of cooperation so that an ecosystemic view on biological as well as cultural life would set the ultimate taxonomy for our value systems? This would have fundamental repercussions for our self-formation (mentality training, meditation, compassion training) and education (scientific and social education in schools and as lifelong education for creativity in wholesome cycles) and the vision for a society that sets up holistic lines of production (industry) in an eco-systemic structure.
