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Life-Centered Ethics And The Human Future In Space, Michael Noah Mautner
Life-Centered Ethics And The Human Future In Space, Michael Noah Mautner
Chemistry Publications
In the future, human destiny may depend on our ethics. In particular, biotechnology and expansion in space can transform life, raising profound questions. Guidance may be found in Life-centered ethics, as biotic ethics that value the basic patterns of organic gene/protein life, and as panbiotic ethics that always seek to expand life. These life-centered principles can be based on scientific insights into the unique place of life in nature, and the biological unity of all life. Belonging to life then implies a human purpose: to safeguard and propagate life. Expansion in space will advance this purpose but will also raise …
A Constitution Of Direct Democracy : Pure Democracy And The Governance Of The Future, Locally And Globally, Michael Noah Mautner
A Constitution Of Direct Democracy : Pure Democracy And The Governance Of The Future, Locally And Globally, Michael Noah Mautner
Chemistry Publications
The author is a Research Professor of Chemistry and space science, with over 140 scientific papers and book chapters, and articles on science, society and the future in "The Futurist" and "Spaceflight". The book reflects his personal experience of political systems from the worst to the best, including the Holocaust, communism and various forms of democracy on four continents. He is active in environmental and nuclear disarmament issues, and participated in several election campaigns, including the first Direct Democracy Representative Campaign in Congressional District 6 in Maryland. The book is based on the author's extensive experiences in life, science and …