Hope for a Better World

The Small Communities Solution

De: J. Donald Walters

Narrado por: Asha Nayaswami

Hope for a better world!

In these turbulent times when wars, religious strife, stifling bureaucracy, and urban decay threaten our very humanity, reducing us to social statistics, a fresh approach to the creation of a truly viable society is desperately needed.

In this intellectual tour de force J. Donald Walters analyzes with deep insight the views expressed by many of the great thinkers in the West, including Plato, Copernicus, Machiavelli, Malthus, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud. He studies their conceptions and misconceptions about the individual’s relation to himself and to society. He shows where their influence has proved adverse, then offers deeply considered, fresh alternatives. Walters urges the listener to resist the hypnosis of “intellectual authority.” Seek the key to a happy and fulfilled life, he says, in personal integrity.

In his last chapter he draws on his own experience in developing cooperative communities. He describes how they can encourage a commonsense way of life, deepen human relationships, and inspire people to fulfill their own higher potentials. Hope for a Better World! offers compelling solutions to many of the challenges that face humanity today. Indeed, it succeeds—originally and excitingly—in offering real hope for a better world.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

Walters is really onto something . . . [Hope for a Better World!] cries out for further study and commentary. —NAPRA Review

A splendid book to dispel the cynicism of our times and to reassert the practical idealism of cooperative life. —Robert V. Hine, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside and Irvine, and author of California’s Utopian Colonies

Walters takes us on a fascinating journey backward in time in order to explore the future of human relationships. He guides us through the history of Western thought to arrive at a deep understanding of our evolutionary moment—the expansion of human consciousness. Like a good story-teller, Walters leaves us waiting breathlessly to hear more, and how we can put ourselves on this path to a better world. —Louise Diamond, Ph.D., President of PeaceTech and author of The Courage for Peace and The Peace Book