Triumph of Civilization examines the concept of democracy and the related concept of nonviolence in the light of the global crises we face at the dawn of the 21st century. It develops a deeper understanding of democracy that is inherently nonviolent and fundamentally holistic. It analyzes our contemporary world in terms of both current forms of democracy and the extent of its violence, showing that our contemporary civilization is both profoundly undemocratic and intrinsically violent. It argues that the way out of our current set of interdependent crises is to establish Earth Federation through actualizing
, under a world constitution, the three most fundamental features of authentic democracy: positive freedom, reasonable economic equality, and a global community premised on the many "human universals" that we all share as well as the common good of the Earth and future generations.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Holism and Democracy
Basic Arguments of this Book
1.2
The
Promise of Democracy
1.3
Rationality
and Community
1.4
Our Higher Human Potential
1.5
Holistic Spirituality
2.1
Loss of Foundationalism and the Rise of
Liberal Democracy
2.2
Positive
Freedom and Planetary Democracy
2.3
Democracy and Human Evolution
2.4 The Moral Imperative for Planetary Democracy
2.5
Maturity
and Democracy
Chapter Three: Education and Values for a
Democratic World Order
Education and a Holism: Foundations for a New
Planetary Ethic
3.1 Philosophical and Social-Scientific
Understanding of Human
Development
3.2
Holism
and the Principle of Unity in Diversity
3.3
The Fragmented Modern World and
Historical Forces that Impede
Human
Development
3.3
Education
for Critical Consciousness
3.4
Education
for a Democratic World Order
PART TWO: IMPERIAL DOMINATION AND SYSTEMIC WORLD DISORDER
Chapter Four: The Deep Violence of Our Modern World System
Religion
and the Global Transformation from Deep Violence to Deep Nonviolence
4.1
Spirituality
and Nonviolence
4.2
Religion
and Nonviolence
4.3
The
Violent Structure of Today’s World System
4.4
Weapons
of Mass Destruction and the Violence of Nihilism
Chapter Five: Religious and Revolutionary Violence
Understandable Reactions to a Horrific World System
5.1
Rebel
Violence and the Response of Counter-Insurgency Warfare
5.2
Religiously Motivated Violence
5.3
A
Nonviolent Political and Economic Order for Earth
Chapter Six: Violent Economics
Understanding Our World System as a Key to Global Peace and
Prosperity
6.1
Nation-states,
Monopoly Capitalism, and Violence
6.2
Primitive
Accumulation, Banking, and Corporations
6.3 World Trade, International Banking, and the Threat of Global
Totalitarianism
PART THREE: DAWN OF A HOLISTIC EARTH CIVILIZATION
Chapter
Seven: A Nonviolent Democratic Community for the Earth
Authentic Political and Economic Democracy as
Central to a Holistic World Order
7.1
Human
Communities as a Moral Framework for Human Life
7.2
Eight
Principles of Authentic Democracy
7.3
Socialism:
Economics Based on Fundamental Human Values
7.4
Democracy
Requires a United World under the
Earth
Constitution
7.5
Monetary
Reform: Its Basic Agreement and Fatal Flaw
7.6
Specific
Economic Arrangements under the
Earth
Constitution
Chapter Eight: Nonviolence and World Order
The
Moral Impossibility of Military Service or Sovereign Nation-States
under the Genuine Rule of Law
8.1
The
Kantian Principle of Moral Autonomy
8.2
Military
Service is both Contradictory and Immoral
8.3
The
Sovereign Nation-State System as Inherently Terrorist
8.4
Terrorism:
a ‘Criminal Act’ or an Act of War?
8.5 The Locus of
Legitimate Democratic Government
Chapter Nine: A Nonviolent Peace System for the
Earth
The Anatomy of a Holistic World System
9.1
The
Philosophy of Nonviolence and World Law
9.2
Civilian
Police verses Military Force
9.3
Principles
of Nonviolence behind the Institutionalization of Peace
9.4
The Institutionalization of Peace
Chapter
Ten: The Great Transformation – A Twenty-first Century Rebirth of
Civilization
Planetary Maturity, Nonviolent Institutions, and a Holistic Earth
Community
Appendix A.
The
Development of the Earth Constitution and the Provisional World Parliament – A Brief
History
Appendix B.
A
Constitution for the Federation of Earth
Appendix C.
Diagram
of the Earth Federation
Sources of the Epigraphs
Bibliography and Works Cited
Index