Cybrary – Food for Thought

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Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on August 9, 2009 at 7:45am

In the last months I got some tips for interesting texts:

Anne Dosher pointed my attention to a text on stewardship and leadership by Michael Jones, published in the Integral Leadership Review.
Ulric Rudebeck shared a document on principles for new organisations by the Society for Organisational Learning SOL.

Attachments:

• Principles for new organisations SOL.doc, 35 KB
• Michael Jones Transforming Leadership.doc, 87 KB

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on August 10, 2009 at 3:48am

Here are two texts about the future of democracy by one of the greatest contemporary philosophers I know of: Johannes Heinrichs. Alas, he is not well known in Germany, either.

Most of his writings are not translated to English. For the German speaking folks, this is his website: www.johannesheinrichs.de. And this one is also closely linked to his work: www.viergliederung.de

He has published a few texts in English on his social philosophy and theory of democracy, which I think are most relevant and inspiring regarding the topics of this Salon. As he invited me do share his writings: Here they are!

Enjoy reading! I'm looking forward to discuss Heinrich's ideas!

Attachments:

• Democracy_Heinrichs.doc, 169 KB
• four-way-path-model.pdf, 139 KB

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on August 10, 2009 at 3:57am

I am going to add two other (German) texts on the relation of science, faith and spirituality which are really intersting when thinking about what holds communities together ...

Attachments:

• WissenschaftSpiritualität.doc, 58 KB
• Wissenschaft-Glaube-Vernunft.pdf, 4.4 MB

Permalink Reply by Christine Whitney Sanchez on August 12, 2009 at 11:57am

Thank you for posting these, Ulrich. Since I am very interested in the future of democracy, I am grateful to be introduced to Johannes Heinrichs. As he says in the Four Way Path, "Democracy, ladies and gentlemen, is a great promise, which is far from being already fulfilled."

Permalink Reply by Christine Whitney Sanchez on August 12, 2009 at 12:00pm

Apologies for the duplicate posting...

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on August 12, 2009 at 1:45pm

You're most welcome: I cancelled the second version ...