Humanism and Spirituality

On 4 May 1969, Silo – the literary pseudonym of the humanist thinker Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos – gave his first public speech. The dictatorial regime of Juan Carlos Onganía had removed him from the large urban conglomerates and the…

For over 200 days since October 7th, the brutal oppression of Palestinians in their homelands has been brought into the awareness of a previously unaware western population Western governments’ desperate attempts to support Israel’s genocidal leaders reveal their own authoritarian…

Born November 5th 1931, Dr. Ahangamage Tudor Ariyaratne founded Sri Lanka’s Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement. The concept of “Shrama-dana” directly translates as “donating your labour”, a concept adopted by A.T.Ariyaratne when working as a high school teacher at Nalanda College, where…

From April 26 to 28, hundreds of social movement activists will converge on Marseille from all over Europe. Associations, trade unions, NGOs and local collectives want to make the voice of civil society heard for a social, ecological, pacifist, and…

Global military spending surges amid war, rising tensions, and insecurity. New data on global military spending from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has been released. (Stockholm, 22 April 2024) Total global military expenditure reached $2443 billion in 2023,…

It’s surprising that human infants as young as 10 months may be able to identify social rank. Research suggests that infants learn to distinguish who around them is dominant, using relative body size as a cue. By Marjorie Hecht Experiments by University…

Introduction In ancient times, in the Stone Age, people had to move from one place to another to move their herds seasonally in search of fresh pasture and water. Transhumance was common in those days. There were no borders, no…

On 16 April 1993, Mario Rodríguez Cobos, better known by his literary pseudonym SILO, gave a lecture at the Autonomous University of Madrid entitled “Current Vision of Humanism”. Thirty-one years after this event, it is worth asking whether it would…

The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences – UADER, Mg. María Gracia Benedetti and the Vice Dean Lic. Daniel Richar was present in the city of Concordia to accompany the inauguration of the new director, lawyer…

The secretary general of the Argentine Humanist Party, Fernando Schüle, has filed a criminal complaint with the Comodoro Py courts, requesting an investigation into possible crimes committed by President Javier Milei and members of his cabinet, even involving members of…