Articles by Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

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Howard Richards (10 Jun 1938 – 7 Apr 2024) RIP
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

Dr. Howard Richards was a member of the TRANSCEND Network and a philosopher of social science based in Chile, working also in South Africa. He was a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College in Indiana, a Quaker school where he taught for thirty-five years. Howard will always be in our hearts as one of our most brilliant thinkers. RIP

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The Coronavirus Pandemic as Opportunity in the Midst of Suffering: For a Future of Global Solidarity
Dr. Evelin Lindner | Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020

2 Apr 2020 – Where do we stand, as humankind? We have dug ourselves into a multitude of perilous crises, both despite and because of what we call progress or economic growth. In service of profit, we practice strategies of development that shred our social fabric while simultaneously plundering our planet – fuelling a toxic combination of sociocide and ecocide that leads to intractable cycles of systemic humiliation. The coronavirus pandemic is one manifestation of this dire predicament.

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