by Ethos Institute | Sep 7, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
One of the great achievements of the previous century is the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. The Declaration was composed soon after the end of the Second World War when...
by Ethos Institute | Sep 7, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
In recent years, academics here have been arguing that Singapore has to revise its social compact due to rapidly changing circumstances, both at home and globally. Founded on strong fundamentals – individual responsibility and self-reliance, economic growth and jobs...
by Ethos Institute | Sep 6, 2015 | Pulse
September 2015 Pulse On 24 May 2015, the citizens of Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage, making the predominantly Roman Catholic country the first in the world to do so by popular vote. 1,201,607 or 61% of the voters said ‘Yes’ to same-sex marriage in a...
by Ethos Institute | Aug 16, 2015 | Pulse
August 2015 Pulse The American sociologist Peter Berger is perhaps one of the most interesting scholars of secularism and religion. In his book The Sacred Canopy published in 1967, Berger presented the famous secularisation thesis which postulates that as modernity...
by Ethos Institute | Aug 3, 2015 | Feature
August 2015 Feature Article There was a season in world history when excessive confidence and trust was conferred on science, technology, and the place of the mind. At the same time, suspicion and cynicism was directed at spirituality, subjectivity, and the place of...
