Author: Glen T Martin
Dr Glen T. Martin is professor emeritus of philosophy at Radford University in Virginia. He is President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association and Executive Director of the Earth Constitution Institute, both organizations cooperating to create democratic world government under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. Dr. Martin has lectured worldwide in doing this work. He is author of 12 books and hundreds of articles on holistic solutions to our planetary crises. His newest book, just launched, is called The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet.
Evolutionary Humanism and the Democratic Spirit: Consequences for Today’s World
If we want real democracy protecting universal human rights, then the world’s social order must evolve into a democratic Earth Federation, with liberty, equality, and community for all perso [...]
Humanism, Enlightenment Values and the US Descent into Fascism
There is a path of truth open to human beings to which nihilists and fascists appear blind and which many humanists have ignored. [...]
On Freedom and Dignity: Issues Raised by the Contemporary American Political Crisis
Freedom and dignity are two features of liberal democracy. These are protected by laws but what happens if the laws are ignored by the governments sworn to uphold them. [...]
Structural Hate: Institutions that divide, destroy, and allow hate to flourish
Dualities pervade human existence. There are several key concepts in human life that arise in pairs within our experience and are defined in terms of one another: truth/falsehood, beauty/ug [...]
Church and State in the 21st Century: A Story of Human Evolutionary Growth
Government is a necessary feature of all complex societies. It must regulate and coordinate a multiplicity of diverse economic, political, public health, cultural, and moral activities... [...]
Peace as the Integration of Harmony, Freedom, and Justice
The mandala of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth symbolizes the harmony of the whole that emerges from ratification and implementation of the Constitution for humankind. [...]
World System Crisis and the Future of Democracy
Democracy began to emerge as an ideal of human relationships and social conduct that can be embodied within various political structures, but which ultimately transcends all such structures. [...]
Truth and Lie in the Post-Truth World
Nietzsche’s lifelong thought predicted that this endless relativism would dawn upon the world of the future. He declared that humanity would end up in “nihilism,” a condition in which there [...]
Globalization and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
A common estimate is that the global population increases by about 80 million persons annually. [...]
Integral Humanism, World-System, and Sustainability
With the development of complex machinery, technology, and the discovery of fossil fuels for running that machinery, the modern world exploded in a series of industrial revolutions that have [...]
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