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    Humanos Híbridos

    SINGAPURA – A eleição de um novo papa reacende sempre o debate sobre a tensão entre tradição e modernidade na Igreja Católica. Talvez mais i…

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    Populismo Sem o Povo

    PRINCETON – A vitória por estreita margem de Nicolás Maduro na eleição presidencial da Venezuela levanta uma questão importante (bastante di…

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    Jogadas de Alto Risco

    CAMBRIDGE – Quem é suficientemente afortunado para viver no mundo desenvolvido preocupa-se com uma miríade de insignificantes – ou por vezes…

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    O Papa e o Partido

    ALBERTA – À medida que o século XX se aproximava, o Papa Leão XIII, lamentando a escolha da humanidade entre o socialismo ateu e o liberalis…

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    A Conspiração da Transparência

    SÓFIA – Um dos resultados mais preocupantes da actual crise financeira foi a perda de confiança nas instituições democráticas e nos político…

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    Admiráveis Células Novas?

    LONDRES – A Autoridade para a Fertilização Humana e para a Embriologia (HFEA) do Reino Unido lançou uma consulta pública para avaliar os pon…

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    A biologia do luxo

    PARIS – Apesar da crise económica mundial, as vendas de bens de luxo estão em alta em todo o mundo. Porquê? Embora o marketing tenha contrib…

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    Nacionalismo e terrorismo

    BOSTON – O 11 de Setembro de 2001, pode – pelo menos no início – parecer uma adição inadequada à história do nacionalismo, dadas as pretensõ…

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Worldly Philosophers

What makes a war just? Are preemptive attacks ever morally defensible? What are the sources of violence? Is the world becoming “Americanized,” and if so, who is responsible? What is the meaning of treason?

Because they can be disseminated and downloaded anywhere with the click of a computer mouse, ideas nowadays have the potential instantly to reach – and shape – everything from people’s consciences to the cash in their wallets. Yet, today’s Internet Babel may also submerge some of the best current thinking in a tidal wave of noise.

Project Syndicate with its record of success in making complex ideas comprehensible to the lay public, and Vienna’s Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), an acclaimed interdisciplinary intellectual center in the heart of Europe, are uniquely placed to dissect the trends, paradoxes, and reflections now fashioning our world and our future.

Edited by the Director of the Institute for Human Sciences and noted philosopher Krzysztof Michalski, the Worldly Philosophers series brings to readers of Project Syndicate member papers such distinguished thinkers as philosophers Leszek Kolakowski, John Gray, and Robert Spaemann; historians Pierre Nora, Reinhard Koselleck, Dominique Schnapper, and Tsvetan Todorov; political scientist Francis Fukuyama; and public intellectuals and statesmen, such as Poland’s Bronislaw Geremek and Germany’s Kurt Biedenkopf.

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