Efroimsson V.P.
Genetics of ethic and aesthetics.

The Immanuel Kant’s idea about the «moral low» in the man has found its confirmation in the works of Russian genetic scientist Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimsson (1908-1989). The basic idea of the presented work is the one about genetic heredity of the moral, ethical and aesthetical personal foundations. A man is inborn a moral creature, in his genetic fund there are not only the potential ability for a thinking but also the one for distinguish between Good and Evil. This ability have equally all the children from birth, but it could be either developed or ruined by the environment, arguments the author, regarding the principal role of early childhood’s impressions. In addition to the scientific material the book offers different historical, sociological and ethnological examples.

The work is directed first of all to the experts – biologists, psychologists, teachers, but thanks to a popular explanation the book could be interesting for the large public – for example for parents who wish to understand the motives and the peculiarities oh the children’s behaviour.

Ervin Laszlo.
Macroshift. Navigating the Transformation to a Sustainable World.
Translated from English – Moscow: Taidex Co, 2004.

Macroshift is the author’s notion for the fundamental transformation of the civilization. In consequence of the transformation we can either stick in the problems caused of globalisation and ecological crisis or find the right solution of the present situation. Macroshift is an inevitable transformation of the whole living structure of the mankind in the near future. This book combines the admiration with the inner unity of the world, the futurological prognosis and the sensible analysis of the ways of the managed evolution.

The author’s approach consists not only in the analyzing of the future forecast methods, but also contains ideas of the future formation on the basic of modern managing principles. These ideas are in many aspects according to approach of N.N.Moisseev. The author’s approach is based on the idea, that we should not resist the changes but use the power of the contemporary processes for the necessary transformation.

Ervin Laszlo is well-known scientist and public benefactor, one of the referents of the speaker in the Club of Rome, the initiator of the organization of Budapest Club. He is the editor of the weekly «World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution» and of book series «General Evolution Studies».

For the general public.
 

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