The Seven Deadly Sins of Humanity: Overcoming Inner Demons

Satinder Dhiman

Chapter Chapter 9 in Gandhi and Leadership, 2015, pp 181-193 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract On May 29, 1953, the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the frst human beings to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border. Headlines worldwide declared “Man Conquers Everest.” Although at the personal level Hillary considered it more of a conquest over the self,1 this attitude of subjugation of nature permeates our thinking and has become the defning paradigm of humanity, typical of our contemporary approach to nature and the environment. Ever since the dawn of Industrial Revolution, our primary approach toward nature has consistently been that of the conquest and control rather than harmony and coexistence. Unfortunately, this approach has come to dominate all our economic and political policies as well as our way of life in general. The horrifc consequences of this perspective are too evident to recount.

Keywords: Social Responsibility; Extrinsic Reward; Corporate Scandal; Intrinsic Reward; Life Worth Living (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137492357_9

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