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All policies should be packaged with full awareness of the limitation of human nature (amorality, emotionality and egoism) in both the short- and the long-term.
Emotional amoral egoism (2008)
We are neither radically free to choose our nature nor entirely determined by our biological heritage.
Emotional amoral egoism (2008)
We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.
Considerations of justice are also integral to efforts to generate transcultural security in the first instance and, ultimately, transcultural synergy.
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)
Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)
Justice is paramount to civilisational triumph because of its centrality to human dignity needs, the success of individual geo-cultural domains and the well-being of human civilisation.
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)
Knowledge is also inferred from what is accepted as established knowledge, with new knowledge being based on the best explanation. This includes possible truths subject to proof.
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)
What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification.
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)
Harmonious interstate relations will be guided by the paradigm of Symbiotic Realism that stresses the importance of absolute rather than relative gains.
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)
Globalization is a process that encompasses the causes, course, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities.
Civilisational triumph is important because if it is not actively sought, conflictual relations between members of geo-cultural domains may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)
The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
Emotional amoral egoism (2008)
A state’s foreign policy should not just be smart, it should also be just.
Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics (2009)
Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.
Emotional amoral egoism (2008)
There is a physical neurobiological substrate to all human knowledge, including thoughts, memories, perceptions and emotions. To this end, mental states and thought processes are physical.
Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)
Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
Those who are outside the centres of power, because of the need for a positive and not simply a stable identity, are likely to find an independent identity appealing.
Emotional amoral egoism (2008)
If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics (2009)
The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
Emotional amoral egoism (2008)