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Bulletin 14
January 24, 2006
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Scandinavia revisited
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Thirty to forty years ago the Scandinavian countries – especially Sweden - were a point of reference for many of us in Catalonia, for their advanced social system (known as the Welfare State), for their democracy, (Western, rather than left-wing as some wanted us to believe then) and for their economic growth.
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Author: Jordi Pujol
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"Copy-paste"
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No és que m’agradin com a punt de partida les postures i actituds conservadores, però el ritme que estem agafant com a societat de consum arriba a convidar a posar el fre. No cal que m’entretingui a parlar de la pressió a què ens sotmet la feina, la conciliació amb la vida familiar, les presses, etcètera.
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Author: Jordi Cabré
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Avergonyits de la Religió
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Ja fa un temps que es donen dues circumstàncies a Europa que són molt significatives a l’hora de descriure què és decadent en la nostra civilització. Es tracta de la vergonya que els europeus, individual i col·lectivament, privada i públicament, sentim de la nostra religió. Em refereixo al cristianisme, per si algú no ho recordava. Consti que no parlo d’humilitat, ni que reclami orgull, dic que la gent sent vergonya de ser cristià i que Europa es ruboritza quan li recordes.
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Author: Jordi Graupera
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The authenticity ethics
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The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, in the American edition of the trial - published first in Canada the 1991 with the title “The discomfort of the modernity”- defends the ethical principle of the priority of the values on the rights and of good on the justice. And he does it all leaving from the moral ideal of the individualism, supported by the authenticity . About these concepts, Taylor does an interpretation that rejects what he calls degraded and corrupted forms of the individualism egocentric that ignores everything that transcends and only seeks the own interest and welfare. This conception drives to the moral relativism and to the social fragmentation. On the other hand, Taylor believes that the man is gifted of an innate moral sense, nourished of meanings –horizons- such as nature, society or religion. Thus he understands the authenticity as a moral ideal where each one can work his self steem, but always in dialogue with the other. An authenticity that originates free and responsible man, that finds his identity in the identification with the community, and that is capable of proposing and of achieving common objectives. In the opposite side of the social fragmentation caused by the individualism, where people only is mobilized in defense of they’re own rights. A society taken by the culture of the not.
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Author: Charles Taylor
Ed. Paidós, 1994
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National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
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The Democratic National Institute for International Matters (NDI), with headquarter in Washington D.C. and presence to several countries of the five continents, is a think tank that works with the aim to implement, to sterngthen and to expand the democracy through the world with the conviction that it is the most efficient world system for the guarantee of the international stability and peace. Although the NDI in the United States is linked to the Democratic Party –Madeleine Albright is member of the Advisory Committe- abroad is nourished by the global network of more than hundred experts from different environments that act under the unavoidable principle of the universal values promotion.
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