This article is the first part of a three-part series on Daoism, Stoicism, and their comparative relevance for modern societies. The present study focuses exclusively on Daoism as a civilizational response to systemic crisis. The second article will examine Stoicism as a parallel Western ethics of endurance under imperial power. The third will offer a systematic philosophical comparison of these two traditions in relation to contemporary capitalism, artificial intelligence, a

Strategic uncertainty has become the baseline condition under which global politics and economics operate. Power is more dispersed, trust more fragile and stability more conditional than at any time since the end of the Cold War. This landscape begins with the structure of power. The international system has not settled into a stable multipolar balance, but into a form of strategic multipolarity defined by fluid alignments. The US–China rivalry remains central, yet it no long

China did not enter the 21st century as a newcomer to science and technology. It returned. China’s present confrontation with the West over semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and digital sovereignty is not simply a rivalry between latecomer and incumbent. It reflects  a much longer civilizational history  of technical power, institutional coordination, and state-directed knowledge production . No Western thinker did more to restore this depth of memory, and no one unset

The Philosopher Who Looked Beyond Capitalism Few thinkers anticipated the dilemmas of twenty-first-century political economy as clearly as André Gorz  (1923–2007) did. Born in Vienna as Gérard Horst, Gorz became part of post-war France’s intellectual milieu, writing for Les Temps Modernes  under the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre . Over time he fused existentialism, Marxism, and ecological thought into a critique that re-imagined what economics could be about: not growth or pr

Stefan Zweig, in his work Decisive Moments in History , describes the telegraph cable connecting the two sides of the Atlantic as one of...

In 2015, a group of scientists, technology visionaries, and artificial intelligence researchers signed a letter expressing their concerns...

Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming economies and societies. Many believe that artificial general intelligence...

Abstract Despite widespread enthusiasm about artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to reshape productivity , adoption in the...

There are two major existential threats facing humanity today: climate change  and artificial intelligence (AI) . Each poses immense...