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The Path: From the Sacred Harmony of Humanity to a New Economics Read chapter Read first chapter

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

21. Building the Harmony of Humanity

Author : Stephen Hill

Published in: The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Chapter 21 completes the trilogy of Chapters 17 and 18—reaching from the individual, to community, and now, to global society as a whole. The Chapter explores the hidden ‘grammar’ of the economy and technology which have the (unseen) power to structure ‘expression’ in social relations, meaning and action. Based on this analysis and confronting these hidden global frames for meaning, the Chapter seeks to demonstrate ways, sourced in the ‘local’, to build harmony at a wide social level and thus retune the disharmony caused by the current economic ‘neo-liberal’ paradigm. For it is only through building harmony across apparently disharmonious cultures and meanings that humanity as a whole can acquire its ultimate strength and resilience. As a metaphor, sympathetic vibration of each human source stimulates its surroundings to vibrate on the same wave-length. At its highest level of cohesion, mutual empowerment and inspiration, humanity reaches its sacredness, hence the sub-title of this book, “The Platform of Community, Humanity and Spirituality”.

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Footnotes
1
I have developed this ‘enframement’ argument comprehensively in Hill (1988).
 
2
See, for example, Adam Smith, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer of the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own self-interest.” (Smith 1973, 2008).
 
3
See Chap. 17, Stephen Hill. ‘Sacred Silence: The Stillness of Listening to Humanity’.
 
4
See Chap. 18, Footnote 10.
 
5
See Chap. 18, and in particular, Footnote 11.
 
6
Presented in an interactive lecture to the University of Wollongong Summer School on community empowerment which John Hatton and I developed—in cooperation with Glenn Mitchell in 2009–2010. For Council strategy see City of Sydney (2011). The Lectures are available on the University of Wollongong website.
 
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Metadata
Title
Building the Harmony of Humanity
Author
Stephen Hill
Copyright Year
2018
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
The Kyoto Manifesto for Global Economics

Print ISBN: 978-981-10-6477-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-6478-4

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6478-4_21

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