| Abstrakt: |
This article presents view of the developing countries. Before coming to the difficulties and obstacles in the path of a world society, and these are not to be minimized, it should be stressed that the emergence of a world community seems the natural step. Thanks to science, the world has shrunk, and communications are today so rapid that we are all living on each other's doorstep. Even a world economy, based not on a division of labour to the detriment of some peoples but one where all can share in abundance, is now within reach. Above all, there is a worldwide culture and everyone, in whichever part of the globe, is a legatee of the universal traditions and treasures of mankind. Machu Picchu, the Sistine Chapel, the Taj Mahal and Borobudur belong to the world. The achievements of physics, mathematics and philosophy are a part of the inheritance of every individual. One is even able to transcend the specificities of doctrinal religions and live by the truths which are common to Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. The failure to attain a world society therefore is an aberration, a departure from the norm. Politics and narrow economics are obstructing the natural course to which science, culture and religion point; and in this there is room for at least a subdued optimism. |
