从文化多样性角度看克服个人与社会危机的人文主义道路

本次研讨会旨在揭示当前历史阶段中正在经历个人与社会危机的结构。这场危机给人和民族带来了深重的痛苦，而被建立于暴力基础之上的资本主义、消费主义、掠夺性全球体系的扭曲叙事积累加以剧烈。

在充满不确定性、非理性主义、倒退颓废的信仰与意识形态的时代，这种方法涵盖了广泛的挑战，从寻求存在的意义，到战争、核威胁、贫困、机会不平等、歧视，以及气候与生态紧急情况等。

除了深入探讨现行制度终极危机的结构性理解和历史进程之外，本次研讨会首先寻求成为一种提出新的人文主义手段来克服这一危机的催化剂。

为此，最根本的前提是汇集地球上所有文化的贡献，去理解并克服经过几个世纪殖民主义强制给人类的政治、经济与文化模式的偏见与局限。各民族文化传统中最先进的元素必须汇聚在一起，作为人类历史上第一个地球文明的基础。

同样重要的是要明白，如果未对我们看待自己，看待世界上正在发生的一切的方式进行转变，就不可能有任何改变。我们的世界已成为了吝啬与疯狂的受害者，因此有必要培养一种超越这恶性世界操作方式的目光，并通过培养清醒意识和“良好知识”来拓宽视野。

In the context of the 9th WCHS Symposium, dedicated to the limits to overcome in order to get out of the unprecedented crisis that affects us, the eradication of violence is obviously one of the issues at stake.

The persistence of political and economic powers in using violence as a means to maintain or extend their hegemony, and the generalisation of violence as a basis of expression for human existence, lock humanity into destructive, pusillanimous and dead-end patterns.

The gender issue is crossing our borders of thought. Today the issue of gender raises not only sexual diversity, but also includes identity, the relationship between peers and with other generations, the relationship with the world, the interpretation of reality, etc.

In parallel, it is increasingly evident to society that violence against women is an undeniable historical fact over the centuries; An issue that, according to feminist currents, responds to the patriarchal structure of today's society.

In different regions of the world, entire towns were devastated by invaders who converted them into slavery and through territorial invasion and material looting, entire population strips remained submerged in poverty until the present.

But not satisfied with this type of holocaust, an attempt was made to suppress the Cosmogony of these Ancestral peoples with different campaigns of "Extirpation of Idolatry", as in the case of America.

Since the dawn of human history, the human being has had to face what can be defined as the limit par excellence: death.

Science, technology, philosophy and religions have struggled and continue to struggle against what seems to be an apparently insurmountable limit. It is true that considerable progress has been made in the treatment of many diseases that used to lead to premature death, but inexorably this continues to occur for all human beings, without excluding anyone.

What is consciousness? In principle, it is something that can only be experienced by those who possess it. It cannot be "seen" from the "outside". One way of asking about the consciousness that can be in a given "object" would be to ask "Hello, is anyone there? This is intended to show that consciousness is what allows us to define ourselves as "someone", as a "person". Consciousness is thus the essence of our existence. Literally, without our consciousness we would not exist. We are, above all, bearers of consciousness. Of course, this is only a point of view....

We invite you to participate in the following thematic areas

Health 
Education 
Economy and Society Social Ecology 
Non-violence 
Disarmament 
Gender and feminisms
Indigenous People and Decolonization Movements Human Rights 
Conscience and the world 
Spirituality and Transcendence 
Non-violent society Communication for the 21st century 

The situation of crisis that humanity is going through at the present time is evident. The crisis manifests itself at different levels and in all spheres of human action, thought and experience. History has recorded numerous crises that endangered the survival of human groups in different times and places, but in this case – as it was the case a few decades ago with the “cold war” – it is a global crisis.

It’s the system that’s failing!

Change is in organized human action!

WORLD CENTRE OF HUMANIST STUDIES
II WORLD SYMPOSIUM

Foundation of the New Civilization

October 29th to 31st, 2010

The world we knew does not exist anymore; our daily lives have been deeply transformed. A new way of being begins to take shape for Humanity: the first planetary human civilization. How will it be? How do we want it to be?