Process
For the initiation, scientific feedbacking in content and composition and for the multiplication of ''Potsdam Denkschrift & Potsdam Manifesto'' an intensive international scientific discourse was carried out since beginning of the Einstein-Year 2005. An interdisciplinary symposium inBackground
Denkschrift and Manifesto connect to a central but not expanded appeal of theStarting situation
Following the basic ideas of Potsdam Denkschrift & Potsdam Manifesto the global situation at the beginning of the 21st century, 50 years after the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, confronts the humankind in an even more dangerous and more complex form. ''"Our deep worry that we, as members of the species homo sapiens, are increasingly reducing the living diversity of our earth and of our creative developmental possibilities, thus irreversibly endangering our survival in peace and our mutual exchange gives us the courage, and our awareness that we have to take new paths gives us the occasion, to compose this manifesto."'' (Potsdam Manifesto & Potsdam Denkschrift) In this spirit it is not adequate just to answer - to give symptom remedies - to the diverse and escalating endangerments forRe-orientations for Sustainable Development
In accordance ''Potsdam Denkschrift & Potsdam Manifesto'' enquire for the deeper sub-structures of the diverse crises symptoms. They show radical and deep going re-orientations for theBridging Quantum Physics, Ecology and Philosophy
Via the linking up betweenGuiding to New Requirements
''Potsdam Manifesto & Potsdam Denkschrift'' are guiding to new requirements on our organisation and our handling within a multifarious living world. ''"Quantum physics – and not just it – challenges us to emancipate our thinking from rigid structures so that flexible relationships can take their place. It becomes possible to loosen and gently dissolve the monostructural, centralistic constructions, forms of expression preferred by the materialistic-mechanistic worldview."'' (Potsdam Manifesto & Potsdam Denkschrift) The relief of narrow and mechanistic strategy-patterns, reductions and averaging forms a basic matter. ''"It is urgently necessary to enable an integrative cooperation among the diverse economic exchange strategies among people, communities, and their natural surroundings as well as among the patterns of distribution in production, use, and supply, in order to ensure the provision of the necessities of life and the structural and institutional prerequisites for socio-economic exchange. The development of new decentralized and polycentric structures of production, supply, and decision-making has special relevance – indeed priority."'' (Potsdam Manifesto & Potsdam Denkschrift) ''Potsdam Denkschrift & Potsdam Manifesto'' identify necessary drastic changes concerning our future actions. They demand ''"... a strategic orientation toward the paradigm of what lives"'' (Potsdam Manifesto & Potsdam Denkschrift). Because ''"if we continue to “tilt” our common playing field of life by unrestrainedly striving for power, so that the majority of humankind and a great part of all living creatures are slipping off, our problems will grow into a catastrophe."'' (Potsdam Manifesto & Potsdam Denkschrift)Appeal to Stop the Suppressing of the Potentials of Evolution
They close with the urgent appeal to stop the suppressing of the potentials ofSignees
The Potsdam Manifesto was signed by more than 130 scientists and personalities from all over the world.External links
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