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The Schiller Institute Conference continues today.

December 12-13, 2020 Online Conference

The World after the U.S. Election:
Creating A World Based on Reason

Schiller Institute founder and President, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, has stated that the concept of the conference is to address the confluence of crises facing the world, from the unique standpoint of the great 15th-century thinker, Nikolaus of Cusa.

"But, to find a solution to these problems requires a different method of thinking, namely, the coincidence of opposites, that the human mind’s reason is able to create a solution on a higher level than the level on which the problems developed. This was also Albert Einstein’s view, who basically famously said, you can never find a solution to a problem on the same level where it developed.

And the whole idea is that we have to find a way of establishing a level of reason so that all the many problems which the world is faced with right now can actually be addressed and solved."

Sunday, December 13

Panel 3—9 am est

Overcoming the World Health Crisis and the Hunger Pandemic: Thinking on the Level of the Coincidentia Oppositorum

This panel will address the program needed to overcome the devastation of 50 years of neoliberal economic policies on the world, of which the COVID-19 pandemic is only the most obvious example. The world community must agree to establish a world health system, meaning a modern health system in every single country of the planet, if COVID-19 and the danger of future pandemics are to be overcome. As the head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, has announced, 7 million people have already died of hunger this year, which could easily have been prevented. In light of the immediate danger of 30 million more dying of starvation over the next several months, and 260 million slated to meet the same fate in the next year, there must be a complete change in agricultural policy. The objective must be to achieve food security in every nation and a doubling of food production worldwide. To find answers to these existential threats to humanity requires thinking in terms of a new paradigm. Instead of profit maximization for a privileged financial oligarchy, the interest of the one humanity must be put first: the common aims of mankind. To this end a “Committee of the Coincidence of Opposites,” a concept developed by the great Renaissance thinker Nicholas of Cusa, has been formed, whose aim is to have forces of good will in many nations work together to solve these crises.

Panel 4—1 pm est

A Human Future for Youth: A Beethoven-Driven Renaissance of Classical Culture

The fourth panel will be devoted to the need for a renaissance of classical culture, and to the special role of youth in bringing it about. At this moment of history, in which all the foundations of society are shaken, there is an enormous hunger for the beauty of great art, for the lofty ideals of mankind, as they are expressed in the great compositions of classical music and poetry. In all major civilizations there are poets, composers, and philosophers who have celebrated mankind as the creative species, and it will be the dialogue among these cultures, which can and will bring about a new era of mankind. In that spirit, the entire conference will be devoted to the year of Beethoven, whose compositions give people a ray of hope, because they express what humankind is capable of.

For more information on the panels, go to: Conference Page.

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