Our guest today is Bernardo Sorj. Bernardo is a Brazilian social scientist, retired professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is Director of The Edelstein Center for Social Research and of the Plataforma Democrática Project. He has published 30 books and more than 100 articles, on Latin American political development, international relations, the social impact of new technologies, social theory and Judaism and in 2005 was elected Brazil’s Man of Ideas. He’s here to talk to us about ‘Humanism without Hubris’.
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Thank you for this, Bernardo and Barry. It never ceases to amaze me how many different routes there are to arriving independently at the Middle Way. A Brazilian Jewish sociologist has no obvious connection to the kind of Anglophone Secular-Buddhist roots that happen to have provided the cultural starting point for the society, and yet here he is with such converging insights, emerging simply from reflective human experience! Sometimes I get discouraged, and wonder if I’m too attached to trying to impose my own ways of thinking in some way: but to hear an interview like this boosts my confidence that the Middle Way can be approached from a huge variety of standpoints and yet still offer an integrative path for all.