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Reflections on Responsibility and on the Charter
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; A Reflection on Responsibility, following the meeting of the International Facilitation Committee of the Charter of Human Responsibilities, in South Africa, October 2006.
The Charter of Human Responsibilities’ meeting in South Africa brought reminders of historical links between South Africa and New Zealand. These had colonial beginnings, included an anti-apartheid movement and a recent (...) |
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This contribution on Philosophy on Responsibility comes from discussions with Charter committee members.
**Relevance to Charter principles**
Every person’s dignity demands that he or she contribute to the freedom and dignity of others.
In the flowering of the human personality, its non-material aspirations as well as its material needs must be addressed.
The Charter principles may need to (...) |
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After background discussion on the Charter, and on the Alliance website, we had a discussion of governance in different cultures, and in particular in the Pacific, where this researcher had done PhD research. Here, responsibility is vested in leaders. Even thinking about leadership in democracies, this is so, although organized in very different ways from traditional Pacific leadership and (...) |
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Comments from the project
After careful reading of the principles, all said that the Charter reflects a western world view, and is referenced to its requirements and laws. What was being implied was that it addresses an adversarial system based on a dualistic worldview. The separation of nature and the environment, and culture are are codified in law. It forms the framework of religion and (...) |
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