HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Howard Richards*

23 July 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — My suggestion is that the answers to the question my title poses will depend on how we understand cause and effect. Acting intentionally entails the belief that the action(s) will cause, or at least tend to cause, the results intended.  

Howard Richards

The truth or falsity (or mixed truth and falsity) of that belief (or set of beliefs) depends on the causal powers that move events and move history.

It also depends on our own causal powers (if we have any) to make a difference.

The “beliefs” that spell the difference between our actions being part of the solution, or being part of the problem, or being an irrelevant spinning of wheels going nowhere, may be collective or unconscious or both collective and unconscious.

They may be examined or unexamined.

The subject of my question is how to get the world back on track toward human flourishing in harmony with nature.