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The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Editorial Review
“A thoroughly compelling read, accessibly written, offering readers a comprehensive insight into the world order and where it’s all going. A Wishing Shelf ‘recommended read’.”
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The Book Network
“…a wide-ranging, deeply humane reflection… a rare synthesis — a bridge between philosophy and lived experience, moral theory and the crowded, messy reality of the twenty-first century. One of Hodson’s great strengths is his balance between the historical and the immediate.
His style is lucid, often elegant, and refreshingly unpretentious. ..an act of intellectual hospitality. The beauty of Hodson’s writing lies in his ability to weave vast ideas into accessible patterns… he encourages a habit of mind — a willingness to see both sides, to question assumptions, to act from conscience even when certainty eludes us.
Paul Hodson has written a book of rare breadth and moral clarity.
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"An essential read for anyone concerned about humanity's trajectory and how we can shape humanity's future.. scholarly insight with accessible prose to illuminate our species' most crucial challenges while suggesting clear paths forward." Isabel Corfe, Editor, Arena Books.
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Key Questions in Where are We Going...
Introduction
Where are we now – in the world and in ourselves?
Chapter I: Human Nature, Virtues, and Vices
Is human nature constant, across time and cultures ? Is adaptability of what we believe essential for progress?
How much are we shaped by nature or nurture?
How much of our key Western beliefs have changed?
What role might modern physical
Introduction
Where are we now – in the world and in ourselves?
Chapter I: Human Nature, Virtues, and Vices
Is human nature constant, across time and cultures ? Is adaptability of what we believe essential for progress?
How much are we shaped by nature or nurture?
How much of our key Western beliefs have changed?
What role might modern physical and social sciences play in the development of ‘humanity’?
Chapter II: Individualism, Society, and Citizenship
Is tension between individualism and civic duty inevitable, necessary, and getting worse?
Can, and must, there be a new global dialogue?
How important is individual morality?
How do these dilemmas and changes affect everyday life?
Can, and should we, change how we think?
Do increasing globalisation and global problems require a new type of citizen?
Chapter III: Government and Leadership
How has human nature played a part in our leadership and governance and how do these continue to evolve?
What are the issues that threaten democracy and what are the alternatives?
How has leadership changed over time? How can we improve it for democratic resilience?
Chapter IV: The Economy
How are ‘econom
Chapter III: Government and Leadership
How has human nature played a part in our leadership and governance and how do these continue to evolve?
What are the issues that threaten democracy and what are the alternatives?
How has leadership changed over time? How can we improve it for democratic resilience?
Chapter IV: The Economy
How are ‘economies’ supposed to work?
How much are the Social Contract and Traditional Work under pressure?
What do, and could, changes in national and global economies look like?
Chapter V: Conflict
Is conflict inevitable?
Is crime part of human nature and can we prevent or minimise it?
Is discrimination part of human nature and can we prevent or minimise it?
Is war part of human nature and can we prevent or minimise it?
Chapter VI: Globalisation
What are the origins of our modern globalisation?
How profound is the challenge of climate change?
Has economic globalism been of benefit or a problem?
Are nationalism and globalism mutually exclusive? How is one changing the other?
Is a new global culture possible?
Chapter VII: Religion
How important is Religion today?
How adaptable are our modern religions?
What are the key issues they need to adapt to, to make sure they have a future?
Chapter VIII: Science and Technology
What are we learning from science and technology about our origins, and about the natural world?
In what balance is modern science and
Chapter VII: Religion
How important is Religion today?
How adaptable are our modern religions?
What are the key issues they need to adapt to, to make sure they have a future?
Chapter VIII: Science and Technology
What are we learning from science and technology about our origins, and about the natural world?
In what balance is modern science and technology an opportunity or a threat?
Are modern science and technology harmful addictions out of our control?
Chapter IX: Unthinkable
How might we re-balance power in the living world?
Is eliminating illness and disease really a good thing?
Will space exploration change us, or will we simply be ‘inflicting’ ourselves on it?
Chapter X: Conclusion
Can humanity change the future?
How must we change ourselves to make progress against our challenges?
What specific changeable areas of progress must we concentrate on?
PAUL HODSON - AUTHOR
Me - the Writer
I have always been interested in the world around me and the people in it. I firmly believe that to understand the world we live in we need some historical perspective, and a willingness to reflect on what we see and do.
I specialise in engaging and informative content that resonates with readers. My aim is to increase reflection on our history and contemporary global society - its ill's and its benefits. Making people think is my greatest aim and success.
Me - the Human Being
An author now with a second book published, I previously worked as a teacher, and travel extensively. These interests, with sport, film, and reading, have given me a wealth of knowledge and understanding that in turn give me my opinions, my ideas, my perspective, my imagination, and my vision of the world.
THE BOOKS
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Through looking at Government and Leadership, Science and Technology, Religion, and other areas, this book shows how we got to where we are. It uses different perspectives, current developments, and various subject disciplines, including a bit of philosophy and common sense, to suggest where we might be headed.
As Shakespeare would appreci
Through looking at Government and Leadership, Science and Technology, Religion, and other areas, this book shows how we got to where we are. It uses different perspectives, current developments, and various subject disciplines, including a bit of philosophy and common sense, to suggest where we might be headed.
As Shakespeare would appreciate, some parts are bigger than others, but the whole is better when everyone plays their role. A Head of State may have unique power, a devoted activist out-size influence, but if individuals choose to buy or not buy a brand, to recycle, or to vote, they have an influence. Everyday millions of people make choices and changes that have an influence.
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Beginning at the very beginning this book charts the development of England's, and then Britain's, characteristics, through the great and the good, through ordinary men and women, through landscape and rural life, market towns, provincial cities and the great metropolis of London, through people, places, events and ideas.
63. Reform or Rev
Beginning at the very beginning this book charts the development of England's, and then Britain's, characteristics, through the great and the good, through ordinary men and women, through landscape and rural life, market towns, provincial cities and the great metropolis of London, through people, places, events and ideas.
63. Reform or Revolution: Part 1
It could not go on. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) foreshadowed changes. His ‘Utilitarianism’ promoted sweeping away what did not work. He applied this to social reform and welfare, politics and especially the legal system, which he sought with some degree of success to reform towards more rational principles and away from individual perceptions. He saw the development of a moral good based in the natural human instinct of balancing self-interest with possible harm.
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Publication and Reviews
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Where are we going, and are we nearly there yet?
PUBLISHED 5TH DECEMBER 2024
AVAILABLE FROM
Arena Books Ltd.:
Where are we Going? - Arena Books
Waterstones: Where are we Going and are we Nearly There Yet? by Paul Hodson | Waterstones
The Great British Bookshop: Where are we Going and are we Nearly There Yet?
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AND OTHER BOOKSTORES
English and British History in 100 Bitesize Chunks
Matador, 2020.
“Paul Hodson has accomplished the mountainous challenge of documenting British History from the geological formation of these islands to the arrival of humans, right up to our present-day culture. He has carved the path for readers to follow him in 100 steps. To see this timeline so clearly adds a new and surprising context to what and where we are today.”
Matthew Parris, of The Times, 1st June 2021.
inspiration and recommendations
2013: details of the British Museum entrance
The British Museum: ambitious or elitist? open to all or the preserve of the 'educated'? for awe and wonder or for education? national history triumphant, receiver of culturally fought for relics, or capable of critical interpretation?
Still one of my favourite places the museum remains free (donations encouraged). A testament to Victoria
The British Museum: ambitious or elitist? open to all or the preserve of the 'educated'? for awe and wonder or for education? national history triumphant, receiver of culturally fought for relics, or capable of critical interpretation?
Still one of my favourite places the museum remains free (donations encouraged). A testament to Victorian ambition, it has moved with the times and remains one of the world's great museums, and places of awe and wonder, and education.
A recommendation worth considering?
A recommendation worth considering?
- BBC's Celebrity Traitors is a must for so many reasons!
- i am currently reading Tom Baldwin's and Marc Stears' England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country - and How to Set Them Straight published by Bloomsbury. An interesting and readable mix of history and politics.