by Ethos Institute | Mar 15, 2015 | Pulse
March 2015 Pulse Christian mystic and philosopher Simone Weil wrote in her famous work Waiting for God, published posthumously more than 60 years ago: “Today one might think that the white races had almost lost all feeling for the beauty of the world, and that they...
by Ethos Institute | Mar 2, 2015 | Pulse
March 2015 Pulse It is quite fashionable to label the period in which we inhabit by the use of the prefix ‘post’: post-liberal, post-colonial, post-modern and even post-human. While the prefix annoyingly tells us very little, it does suggest that ours is an age...
by Ethos Institute | Feb 16, 2015 | Pulse
Feb 2015 Pulse Like so many around the world, I too was hoodwinked into believing Somaly Mam’s story. The world-renowned crusader against sex trafficking and slavery almost achieved iconic status with the story of her own sexual abuse when she was a 13-year-old girl...
by Ethos Institute | Feb 2, 2015 | Pulse
Feb 2015 Pulse In the past five decades, debates on the environment have seen a notable shift from anthropocentric to biocentric thinking. Theologians, philosophers and ethicists generally acknowledge that the traditional human-centric approach cannot adequately...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 20, 2015 | Pulse
Jan 2015 Pulse In a remote village in Borneo, men lined up in a brothel to pay for sex with a prostitute called Pony. What is particularly disturbing is that Pony is a female Orangutan that has been captured, shaved, chained to a mattress and used as a sex slave. The...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 5, 2015 | Pulse
Jan 2015 Pulse While searching for planets in the constellation Draco, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics found a giant Earth-like planet with a diameter of nearly 28,900 km – more than twice the size of planet Earth. Using NASA’s Kepler...
