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Nayef Al-Rodhan est un philosophe, neurochirurgien, théoricien de géopolitique et écrivain. Il dirige le Programme de géopolitique et des enjeux globaux au Centre de politique de sécurité de Genève . Il est chercheur honoraire à l’université d’Oxford. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. juin 1959
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Nayef Al-Rodhan: Citations en anglais

“Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p. 186

“Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.29

“There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28

“All knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28

“Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), pp.85-86

“In order to stop the cycle of disenfranchisement, frustration, and discontent, dignity must be central, paving the way for a governance model that is affordable, acceptable, and applicable to various regional and cultural sensibilities.”

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Arab Spring Transitions Need Home Grown Solutions http://www.theglobalobservatory.org/opinion/554-arab-spring-transitions-need-home-grown-solutions.html - The Global Observatory, 2013

“The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.”

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Dignity Deficit Fuels Uprisings in the Middle East http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/dignity-deficit-fuels-uprisings-middle-east - YaleGlobal, September 2013

“One challenge is to agree on minimum criteria of good governance that are not perceived as a threat to cultural traditions and to draw on moral concepts that are indigenous to specific cultural settings. {{fix cite}”

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Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009)

“Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.97

“Emotional Amoral Egoism indicates that ethnic conflict should be understood in terms of a reaction to a failure to satisfy a group’s basic physiological, security and ego needs due to discrimination, experienced by a group whose relations are premised, above all, on cultural affinities.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.181

“Justice is paramount to civilisational triumph because of its centrality to human dignity needs, the success of individual geo-cultural domains and the well-being of human civilisation.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.219

“Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.203

“A set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity need to be identified and developed.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.29

“Indeed, collective triumph will also depend both on the application of reason and the recognition that a great deal of knowledge is indeterminate and may be temporally, spatially and perhaps culturally constrained.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.437

“Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28

“Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.27

“I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p. 13

“Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.156

“Humankind is an insignificant part of existence.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.27

“What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28

“The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.”

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Source: Emotional amoral egoism (2008), p.16

“Almost every golden age of geo-cultural domains has been characterised by good governance, exchanges, borrowing, innovation and the adaptation of earlier contributions to forms of knowledge, and rationalism.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.171

“Just like the threat of mutually assured destruction from nuclear weapons, an extensive war in space would make space useless, and the decisions taken today will influence the use of space for many generations to come.”

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Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space - (2012) p.285

“Considerations of justice are also integral to efforts to generate transcultural security in the first instance and, ultimately, transcultural synergy.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.403

“Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.390

“Civilisational triumph is thus not a zero-sum enterprise that favours one geo-cultural domain over another.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.213

“A state’s foreign policy should not just be smart, it should also be just.”

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Source: Neo-statecraft and Meta-geopolitics (2009), p.139

“We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.”

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Symbiotic Realism: A Theory of International Relations in an Instant and an Interdependent World, p. 124 (2007)

“Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.”

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The Neurochemistry of Power http://politicsinspires.org/neurochemistry-power-implications-political-change/ - Politics In Spires, February 2014

“In my opinion, a life governed by reason is likely to be more dignified than one shaped by dogma and unbridled emotions.”

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Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.437

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