Have the great thinkers got solutions to world social problems?

Question

A puzzle ?

Answer 1

build community - understand the impact each and every one of us has in our life and in the world.

hang up your cell phone - meet your neighbors - realize your words have power - use them to mend and connect - stand up to authority that is misused.

don't do business with business's that destroy life and people. open a door for someone - smile.

Answer 2

Actually they do, and many of thier ideas are pretty good. However they're thinking on global scales. There's a lot we can do as individuals to help our own societies be better from the ground up.

It's not like you haven't heard these things, before. It's just that people choose not to do them, which is part of the reason why the "great thinkers" are considered great: they say things that makes sense, AND they stick by what they say.

What a concept!

Answer 3

If they did then there would be no problems.
Social problems will always exist due to the nature of mankind.
You may be a great thinker but those accepting your thoughts have to be receptive to them.
Now here's an interesting dilemma maybe the world politicians do not want the worlds problems solved.
Think about it.
No problems, no strife, no need for politicians as we would be living in utopia.

Answer 4

A problem cannot be solved the the same kind of thinking that created it. We need radical thinking to save the worlds problems. Deep ecology puts the planet as being more important than humans. We need experimental philosophers to come up with new ideas. College courses are stuck in yesterdays problems.

You can't get funding for cancer research unless you go down the path of the others who have researched it. That's not where the cure lies. Slashing, burning and poisoning doesn't create a healing environment in the body. Laetrile, Essiac and Ayahuasca have all had success in treating, and even curing cancer. Corporations know they can make more money by patentable treatments for symptoms than by researching herbs that cure the root cause of illness.

To solve the worlds problems we have to think in radically different ways. New types of power (bio-diesel, hydrogen, solar etc.) are needed. I can't believe they're still making machines that run on fossil fuels. Most people won't be able to afford fossil fuels in ten years time. We need to expand our minds not our technology. It's technology that got us into this mess. We need different kinds of technology.

Answer 5

All the world's problems, eg starvation, war, inequality, crime, global environmental destruction etc are caused by the fact that we live in a society which is based entirely upon greed. People will do 'anything' to make more money. Until the nature of society changes, the world's social problems will continue. Indeed, this society 'needs' all the aforementioned problems to work.

Answer 6

Possibly some have some solutions but sometimes the solution of one social problem causes another. Sorry can not give a positive answer

Answer 7

What are great thinkers?
We all have original thoughts and we borrow a bit and beg a bit of information. No one is a great thinker.
Today's great decisions today may look like tomorrows great disasters.

Answer 8

No they don't. If anyone had solutions he or she would have shared them and the rest of us would have been able to recognize the truth and some problems would have been solved rather than getting worse.

Answer 9

The World itself has no problem.

We have.

With 6.5 Billion differing views and aspirations it is difficult to see how social problems can be resolved.

Perhaps that is why we have Priests; to channel our various hatreds into one amorphous stew.

Answer 10

Academics have ideas for policy which could revolutionise social problems. However, governments are reluctant to adopt them because they are often not vote-winners.